Anna Ferro is a senior researcher and international consultant with over 20 years of work experience on migration, diaspora engagement and development, currently collaborating with the Study Centre for International Politics (CeSPI) in Italy. Among her research interests are migration and remittances, policies of diaspora engagement, migrants’ capacity-building, financial inclusion and education, the European Union migration- and asylum-management system, the Balkan migratory route to Europe, climate change, and migration in the Sahel.