Susan F. Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration and serves as the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Previously Dr Martin served as the Executive Director of the Congressionally mandated US Commission on Immigration Reform and as Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group. Her recent publications include A Nation of Immigrants; The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Patterns, Processes and Policies (ed.); Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation; Mexico-US Migration Management: A Binational Approach (ed.); and The Uprooted: Challenges in Managing Forced Migration. Dr Martin received her BA in History from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and her MA and PhD in the History of American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a past President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and serves on the US Comptroller General's Advisory Board and the Boards of the Advocacy Project and DARA USA.