Daniel Costa is the Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a think tank in Washington DC. Costa is an attorney who first joined EPI in 2010 and was EPI’s director of immigration law and policy research from 2013 to early 2018; he returned to this role in 2019 after serving as the California Attorney General’s senior advisor on immigration and labor. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. Costa’s areas of research include a wide range of labor migration issues, including governance of temporary labor migration programs, migration for both professional occupations and lower-wage jobs, worksite enforcement, and immigrant workers’ rights, as well as farm labor, global multilateral processes related to migration, and refugee and asylum issues. He is the son of immigrants, fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Syracuse, and Georgetown