Natasha Iskander
Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Natasha Iskander, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, conducts research on labor migration and its relationship to economic development, labor mobilization and its relationship to workforce development, and processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. Her recent award-wining book, entitled Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Cornell University Press: 2010), examines how the governments of Mexico and Morocco elaborated policies to build a link between labor emigration and local economic development. Her current project investigates how tacit skill moves across national borders through international migration, and the resource it represents for economic development. She has focused in particuar on Mexican migrants in the US and Mexican construction industries.  Additionally, Dr. Iskander examines the impact on rapid rural-to-urban migration on the provision of urban water and sanitation, and its relationship to climate change.    Natasha Iskander received her PhD in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  She also holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and a BA in Cultural Studies from Stanford University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for several years in non-profits in Egypt and the United States on issues of urban development, micro credit and community health planning. She has also worked as a community activist and migrant labor organizer.











Contact Details

natasha.iskander@nyu.edu
295 Lafayette Street, 3043, New York, NY 10012
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Areas of Expertise

  • Environment
  • Finance
  • Governance
  • Immigration
  • Inequality
  • Infrastructure
  • International Development
  • Law & Regulation
  • Management
  • Politics
  • Power
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Race, Class, & Diversity
  • Social Policy
  • Urban Planning

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