Michele M. Wucker /’wʊkər/ (born 1969) is an American author, commentator and policy analyst specializing in the world economy and crisis anticipation.

She is the author of The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore,[1] Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong when Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right[2] and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.

[6] After publishing Why the Cocks Fight, she was appointed senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, at the time part of The New School, in New York City.

[9] In August 2014, Wucker left the World Policy Institute to join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as Vice President for Studies.

[14] In 2010, the Women's Media Center named Wucker a Woman Making History for her work on immigration and the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

[27] In her second book, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, Wucker details the economic impact of the breakdown of the US visa bureaucracy after 9/11.

She flags the widespread American misconception that earlier generations of immigrants were more likely to stay than more recent arrivals, and warns that the United States is failing to capitalize on its greatest strength.

The book addresses historical, economic, political and social dimensions of the relationship between the two countries sharing the island of Hispaniola, viewing conflicts over culture as the symptoms rather than the root cause of the tensions.