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the island of Kosrae, in the Federated States of Micronesia, through the programWorldTeach. Galer has also worked with Harvard Medical School’s Departmentof Global Health and Social Medicine on the Global Health and DeliveryPartnership.Giovanna Gioli is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Research Group “ClimateChange and Security” (CLISEC) of the University of Hamburg, and Visiting Fellowat the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), based in Islamabad,Pakistan. Her research interests revolve around the socio-economic impactsof climate change with a focus on South Asia and on the gender dimension ofclimate change adaptation. She is also interested in “climate change and migration”discourse analysis. Her current research focuses on exploring the genderdimensions of migration as adaptation strategy in the Indus River Basin. Shehas previously worked in Nepal (with WOREC Nepal) on issues related to labormigration and women’s empowerment in South-Eastern Nepal.John R. Harris is Professor of Economics, faculty associate of the Institute forEconomic Development and of the African Studies Center at Boston University.His research has centered on human migration—both rural-urban withindeveloping economies and on international migration. Remittance behaviorof migrants has been an important focus of his research. In 2011, his 1970paper (with Michael Todaro), “Migration, Unemployment, and Development: ATwo-Sector Analysis,” was recognized as one of the 20 most influential articlespublished in the American Economic Review in its first 100 years. During hiscareer at Boston University, he served as Director of the African Studies Centerfrom 1975 to 1988. Prior to joining BU, he was Associate Professor of Economicsand Urban Studies, and Director of the Special Program for Urban and RegionalStudies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a co-founder of theInteruniversity Committee on International Migration, which continues to beadministered through MIT. He was an Associate Research Fellow of the NigerianInstitute for Social and Economic Research, and a Research Fellow of the Institutefor Development Studies at the University of Nairobi. For some years he alsoserved as Director of an Advisory Project (DSP III) working with the IndonesianEconomic Planning Ministry (BAPPENAS), and has been a consultant to manyinternational organizations and governments in Africa and Asia.140 A Pardee Center Task Force Report | October 2013