Giovanni Peri (born September 19, 1969 in Perugia, Italy) is an Italian-born American economist who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Temporary Migration Cluster.
He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Regional Science and Urban Economics.
He is known for his research on the economic impact of immigration to the United States.
For example, he has been critical of the work of George Borjas, which has concluded that immigration has negative economic effects.