Dilip Ratha is a scholar of international migration and its relationship with global development.
He ended his school education early, and left his village to pursue higher studies, getting a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute.
Ratha heads KNOMAD, a World Bank initiative organizing data and knowledge on migration.
[5] Dilip Ratha's professional work and personal journey as a migrant was profiled in The New York Times in 2008.
[1] He has also been cited and quoted in The New York Times,[1][6][7][8][9] The Wall Street Journal[10][11] The Washington Post,[12][13] and Forbes.