Michael E. Fix is an American economist known for his research on immigration, especially illegal immigration to the United States.[1] [2] [3] He is a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, of which he formerly served as president.[4]
Fix has a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a J.D. from the University of Virginia, and did graduate work at the London School of Economics. He first joined the Urban Institute as a research associate in 1977, where he was promoted to senior research associate in 1983. In 1994, he became a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, and in 1998, he was named their Director of Immigration Studies.[5] He joined the Migration Policy Institute as co-director of their National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy in 2005. He was later promoted to vice president of the Institute in 2008,[6] and was later named its president. He stepped down from his position as president of the Institute in summer 2017, while remaining a senior fellow there.[7]