Christian Dustmann is professor of economics at University College London. He is also director of the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work and founding director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration.

He was president of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics from 2017-2021, which he co-founded. He has also served as president of the European Association of Labour Economists and the European Society for Population Economics.

Dustmann is an elected fellow of the British Academy, the German Academy of Sciences the Academy of Europe and the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2020, he was awarded the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize of the German National Academy of Sciences.

Dustmann is a leading labour economist. He works in areas such as migration, the economics of education, the economics of crime, social networks, technology, income mobility, wage dynamics and inequality. He has been a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University and Yale University. Dustmann’s work has been published in leading academic journals. In the 2019 ranking of the German Economic Association, he was ranked first among research-intensive economists in German-speaking countries and German-speaking economists abroad. He regularly advises government bodies, international organisations, and the media on current policy issues.