Zara Riaz is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in comparative politics, with research interests in the politics of migration in Europe and West Africa. Since 2022, she has been affiliated with the RWI Institute for Economic Research, working on projects related to migration in Senegal.
Prior to joining Columbia, Ms. Riaz earned a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College and worked as a research assistant at Princeton University and the African School of Economics.
