Jørgen Carling

Jørgen Carling grew up in Oslo where he attended Oslo Waldorf School (1981–1990) and Oslo Cathedral School (1990–1991). He obtained the International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic (1991–1993) and pursued undergraduate studies in Japanese, Human Geography, Demography and Economics at the University of Oslo (1994–1999) before obtaining a master's degree (2001) and PhD (2007) in Human Geography at the same university. His doctoral research was carried out at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), under the supervision of Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford) and Stein Tønnesson (PRIO). Carling has been a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2003), the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford (2005) and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.

Jørgen Carling (born 11 November 1974, in Oslo) is a Norwegian researcher specializing on international migration. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo and is Research Professor of Migration and Transnationalism Studies. Carling has worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) since 2002, where he has been Research Director since 2012.