Erwin R. Tiongson

Erwin R. Tiongson is Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service where he is an affiliate scholar of the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) and Deputy Director of the Global Human Development Program. He is a Research Fellow of Das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) (Institute for the Study of Labor), External Research Fellow of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at the University College London, and Fellow at Historical Household Budgets. His co-authored papers on migration have been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the International Migration Review. He is lead author or co-author of three World Bank books: Back to Work: Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia (2013); The Crisis Hits Home: Stress Testing Households in Europe and Central Asia (2010); and Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2005).