User:Vipul/Dilip Ratha

Dilip Ratha is a scholar of international migration and its relationship with global development. He is most famous for his role in putting remittances on the map in discussions of migration and development, starting around 2003.

Personal life
Ratha was born in Sindhekela, Orissa. Due to his insatiable hunger for books, he finished his school education and left his village to pursue higher studies, getting a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute. He later joined the World Bank and moved to the United States. Ratha was the first person from his village to become a global migrant, and he along with his younger brother were the only global migrants from his village.

Professional life
Ratha heads KNOMAD, a World Bank initiative organizing data and knowledge on migration. He also hosts and blogs at the World Bank People Move blog, heads the Migration and Remittances Unit at the Migrating Out of Poverty Initiative of the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, and has authored content for the Migration Policy Institute.

Media coverage
Ratha's professional work and personal journey as a migrant were covered in depth in a New York Times profile story in 2008. He has also been cited and quoted in the New York Times,   the Wall Street Journal  the Washington Post,  and Forbes.