Dr. Amelie F. Constant has a distinguished career with positions held at several prestigious universities and Institutes. Since August 2022, she has been a Research Affiliate at the University of Pennsylvania and the Population Studies Center. Previously, she was at Princeton University, the School of Public and International Affairs (2016-2022) and before that, she was the Director of the Migration Research Area at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2011-2016). From 2006-2012 she was the founding executive Director of the Institute for Economic Research, Policy and Teaching (DIWDC) in Washington, DC. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal Migration and Society, on the Editorial Board of the Atlantic Economic Journal, the Applied Economics Quarterly, the Quarterly Journal of Finance, and Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues. Constant is also a Fellow of CESifo in Munich and GLO in Bonn, an Affiliated Professorial Fellow of UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, and an Academic Member of ATINER in Athens.

Dr. Constant is internationally recognized as a labor and migration economist, known for her research in international migration and population for which she has received funding from several foundations and international organizations. She has extensively published (78 refereed publications) in leading journals (Journal of the European Economic Association) and top field journals (Demography, Small Business Economics, Eurasian Business Review, Urban Studies, European Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Population Economics, and International Migration Review) and has won several awards for her publications. Constant has also co-edited three books and several special issues in journals. She has over 8,000 citations in Google Scholar (Feb. 2025). In 2013, Constant was elected Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences for her outstanding achievements as a researcher.

As a professor, Dr. Constant has over 15 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in economics at Georgetown University, the George Washington University, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Drexel University. From 2007-2011, she was also the Vice Dean of the Graduate School at DIW Berlin and was managing its graduate students in DC. In 2012, she had the honor to be invited by the Swedish Research Council (SRC) to serve as an Expert Evaluator for the Midterm Evaluation of Linnaeus grants to seven Universities and Research Institutes in Sweden, toured and evaluated on site in the course of two weeks.

As a businesswoman at DIWDC, she received the Woman of Outstanding Leadership Award by the International Women’s Leadership Association in 2012 and Professional Woman of the Year 2009/2010 Award by the National Association of Professional Women. She serves on the board of directors of several American non-profit organizations. She serves on the Executive Committee of the International Atlantic Economic Society and on the IMISCOE Committee on Migration, Migrants and Labour Markets. She is past President of the Society of Government Economists serving for three years (2014-2017).