Silvia Giorguli

Silvia Giorguli is a prominent sociologist and demographer and has been the president of El Colegio de México since 2015. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a Master's in Demography from El Colegio de México, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University.

As a professor in the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies since 2003, her research has focused primarily on international migration in the Americas, transitions to adulthood in Mexico and Latin America, and the intersection of demographic dynamics, education, and public policies. She has led significant projects such as the Mesoamerican Migration Project and the Recent Immigration Survey in Latin America, and she has served as the main investigator for the project Access to Social Rights and Return Migration in Mexico. Additionally, Dr. Giorguli was a Senior Research Advisor for the State of the World Population 2023 published by the United Nations Population Fund, and has participated in various prestigious academic committees, including the Scientific Academic Committee of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis in Vienna and the Academic Committee of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Her academic contributions have been recognized with several awards, including the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM in 1993 and the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University in 2018.