Dany Bahar is an Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs at Brown University's Watson Institute, a Faculty Affiliate of Brown University Economics Department, a Senior Fellow of The Growth Lab at Harvard Center for International Development and Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy at the Center for Global Development. An Israeli and Venezuelan economist, he also is affiliated to the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development, CESifo Group Munich and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. As a policy scholar he has deep expertise on topics related to globalization, technology and economic growth. 

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Dany has written extensively, too, about the benefits of immigration. He has worked and consulted for multilateral development organizations, such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. In 2019, he participated in a task force of independent experts convened by the secretary general of the Organization of American States to recommend regional actions on the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis. He also produces and hosts a videocast/podcast "Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee”. Bahar holds a B.A. in systems engineering from Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela), an M.A. in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.P.A. in international development from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.