Sara Salomone was born in Rome (Italy) in 1979. She graduated from the University of Rome "Roma 3" in 2004 in Political Sciences. She holds a Master in Development economics and International Cooperation from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in 2005. She got a double Doctoral Degree in 2011 from both the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Tor Vergata with a thesis titled "Four Empirical Essays on International Migration". She is now based at the Catholic University of Louvain where she has been working with Frederic Docquier from 2007. She will start a three years post-doc from the 1st of October 2011.