Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, where she managed MPI’s work in the Asia-Pacific region. Her areas of expertise include temporary and circular migration, particularly between Asia and the Middle East; diaspora policy; and the migration-development nexus.
Before joining MPI, Ms. Mendoza was an Edward Weintal Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in Washington, DC and a factory worker and part-time domestic worker in Reykjavik, Iceland. She also worked as Regional Research Officer at the International Organization for Migration in Bangkok and as consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC and in Sydney.
She holds a master’s degree in foreign service, with honors, from Georgetown University, where she concentrated in international development; and a bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines.
Read Ms. Mendoza's report, Guiding the Invisible Hand: Making Migration Intermediaries Work for Development.