Michael Keith

Professor and Director of PEAK Urban

Affiliation: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
Expert in: Cities and migration
Geographic focus: Global

Michael Keith is Director of the PEAK Urban Research programme. Until October 2019, he was the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford (seconded until 2024). He was until 2021 co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The Economic and Social Research Council portfolio of investments and research on cities), and is the Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. He is also Co-Investigator of the Open City research project.

His research focuses on migration related processes of urban change. His most recent works include 'Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city', and African Cities and Collaborative Futures, both published by Manchester University Press and the Unfinished Politics of Race, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.