New Permanent Visiting Professor - Mary Boatemaa Setrana

Professor Mary Boatemaa Setrana is Director of the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) and Associate Professor of Migration and Social Change at the University of Ghana (UG). She is also the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Research Chair on Forced Displacement in anglophone West Africa. She is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). She serves as an Advisory Board Member for the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration and Mobility and for the Centre on Forced Displacement at Boston University. 

Her research interests include migration, governance, forced displacement, gender and labour migration, return migration and reintegration, and climate related (im)mobilities. 

She has led the development of Botswana's national migration policy and the facilitation of the revision of Ghana's national labour migration policy, as well as contributing to the facilitation of Ghana's diaspora policy. She has also successfully led or co-led a number of international research projects supported by the EU, UKRI and UN agencies, including the Migration for Development and Equality project and the Resilience Against Climate Change initiative. At the African Union level, she developed gender-responsive labour migration policy modules and guidelines/checklists for AU member states, as well as leading the evaluation of the AU migration policy framework.

Alongside her policy and research work, she is deeply committed to mentorship and capacity building early-career researchers and students to equip the next generation of scholars with the skills to reimagine African migration education, research, policy and practice.