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Demetrios G. Papademetriou, a Greek-American scholar and activist on migration, died on January 26 in Washington DC. He was 75.

Papademetriou was born in Patra in western Greece in 1946 and went to the United States on a scholarship in 1964.

Papademetriou was a co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, a US-based think-tank.

He was the institute’s first president, from 2001-14. Since 2008, he was the convenor of the institute’s Transatlantic Council on Migration, a body that brought together senior officials, businesspeople and scholars from the European Union, the United States, Canada and Australia to explore migration policy challenges and solutions.

“Demetri was a mentor to young and old, an advisor to leaders and learners alike,” said his long-time colleague and friend, Antonio Vitorino, director general of the International Organization for Migration and a former European commissioner for justice and home affairs in the Prodi Commission.

“He was patient and generous in