Carlos Vargas-Silva is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford, where is based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). He currently leads the Horizon 2020 REMINDER project about the implications of intra-EU migration and the ECONREF project which explores the integration of refugees in the UK. Carlos is associate editor of the journal Migration Studies. He was also one of the researchers that developed the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford in 2010, and acted as director of the Observatory in 2014 and 2017.