Gil Guerra is an Immigration Policy Analyst at the Niskanen Center, where he focuses on immigration and foreign policy, migrant integration, and demographic trends at the U.S.-Mexico border. Concurrently, he is also the 2024 Latin America Fellow with the Rising Experts Program at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.
Prior to joining Niskanen, he completed fellowships with the Aspen Institute, the Hudson Institute, and the Hertog Foundation. His academic work has been featured by the Society for Terrorism Research, his writing has been published by Foreign Policy, Charged Affairs, and The Dispatch, and his policy advocacy and research have been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, POLITICO, The BBC, The Economist, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others.
Guerra was a 2023 George J. Mitchell Scholar where he earned a Master of Arts in Global Security and Borders at Queen’s University Belfast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with high honors in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. He is available for media requests in both English and Spanish.