David Khoudour (he/him) is a senior development economist and human mobility expert with more than 25 years of experience conducting data-driven and policy-oriented research, and advising decision-makers in governments and international organizations.

As global human mobility adviser within UNDP’s Crisis Bureau in New York (2020-24), Khodour spearheaded the organization’s work on migration and forced displacement. Prior to this, he worked as regional human mobility adviser at the UNDP Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama (2019-20) and as adviser for migration and development at the UNDP Colombia Office (2018-19), supporting the presidency of the Republic of Colombia in its response to the Venezuelan displacement crisis.

Before joining UNDP in 2018, Khoudour was the head of the Migration and Skills Unit at the OECD Development Centre, in Paris, where he managed several policy-oriented research initiatives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Until 2010, he was a researcher at CEPII, a French economic think tank, and a lecturer at HEC Paris, the University Paris Nanterre and Sciences Po, from where he holds a PhD in economics. Khoudour was also a Fulbright scholar at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as a professor of economics and the head of the Observatory on International Migration at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota. He has been a Morse College Fellow at Yale University since October 2024.