Jean-Pierre Conte, chairman of Genstar Capital, who sponsors the J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration at Hoover, which funded and organized the conference, recounted for attendees his own origin story: His mother fled the violent and repressive regimes of Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro in Cuba to come to the United States, and his father left post–World War II France. The purpose of the day’s presentations was to highlight the strong link between high-skill migration and the health of the innovation ecosystem within the US. The papers presented at the conference focused on the impact of immigration policy on economic conditions both inside the US and in countries such as India and Canada, which serve both as sources of high-skill labor and as alternative destinations for highly skilled workers who are refused entry to the United States.
Author: February 9, 2026
Published at: 2026-02-09 00:00:00
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