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, and his policy advocacy and research have been cited in The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO, The Economist, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and The Dispatch.
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.