Alex Nowrasteh is a senior immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. His peer-reviewed academic publications have appeared in The World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Affairs, the Fletcher Security Review, the Journal of Bioeconomics, and Public Choice. Alex regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations across the United States. He is a coauthor of the booklet Open Immigration: Yea and Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014).
He is a native of Southern California and received a BA in economics from George Mason University and a Master of Science in economic history from the London School of Economics.
![Alex Nowrasteh discusses his article "The Cost of the Border Wall Keeps Climbing and It's Becoming Less of a Wall" on MSNBC's Velshi](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2019/nowrasteh-msnbc-1-11-19.jpg?itok=Um0zU2VI×tamp=1547566975 "Alex Nowrasteh discusses his article "The Cost of the Border Wall Keeps Climbing and It's Becoming Less of a Wall" on MSNBC's Velshi")
