Madeleine Sumption

Madeleine Sumption is the Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. The Migration Observatory provides impartial, independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK.

Before joining the Observatory, she was Director of Research for the international program at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. She remains a non-resident fellow with the Migration Policy Institute Europe. Her research interests include the design and implementation of work-based visa policies; investor residence and citizenship programs; and the economic effects of immigration policies in Europe, North America, and other high-income countries. Her publications include, among many others, Selling Visas and Citizenship: Policy Questions from the Global Boom in Investor Immigration and The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States.