Jonathan Beier

Jonathan Beier was a Policy Analyst with MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. He contributed to research design and methodology and conducted data and policy analysis on access to public benefits and services by immigrant groups including unaccompanied children, asylum seekers, refugees, mixed-status families, and unauthorized immigrants.

Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Beier served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science and Technology Policy Fellow on the Senate Finance Committee, managing immigration and human services portfolios with a focus on unaccompanied children. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he directed a research lab studying social and cognitive development in early and middle childhood. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Dr. Beier holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University and a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University.