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Home > Restricted to Members > Council Election > Council 2002 - 2005

IUSSP Council 2002 - 2005

President
Jacques Vallin (vallin@ined.fr)

Vice-President
Hania Zlotnik (zlotnik@un.org)

Country of nationality: Mexico
Country of residence: USA
Education: Ph.D., Statistics and Demography, Princeton university, 1978
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1980
Member of IUSSP Committee on International Migration 1986-1990
Specialisation: International Migration, Internal Migration, Mortality and Morbidity.

Current Position: Chief of the Population Estimates and Projections Section, Population Division, united Nations.
Previous Positions: Research Associate, Committee on Population and Demography, U.S. National Research Council
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Co-author of widely-used manuals on demographic estimation techniques (Manual X: Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation, united Nations, New York, 1983; Step-by-Step Guide to the Estimation of Child Mortality, united Nations, New York, 1990)
Recent publications : International Migration Statistics: Guidelines for Improving Data Collection Systems, International Labour Office, Geneva, 1997.

Secretary General and Treasurer
Mary Kritz (mmk5@cornell.edu)

Country of nationality and residence: USA
Education: PhD, university of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1981
Chair, Committee on International Migration, 1986-1990
Member, IUSSP Working Group on the Economic and Social Aspects of International Migration, 1983-1985
Member, Committee on Nominations, 1989-1993
Specialisation: International migration, Gender roles/differentials, Population and development

Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Population and Development Program, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell university, Ithaca, NY.
Previous Positions: Associate Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell university (1989-1997)
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Member, Board of Directors Population Association of America (1989-92); member, Editorial Board of International Migration Review.
Recent publications : "The Impact of Immigration on the Internal Migration of Natives and Immigrants," Demography 38, no. 1 (2001), co-authored with D.T. Gurak. "The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria," in Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo edited by Harriet Presser and Gita Sen, Oxford University Press: Clarendon, (2000), co-authored with D.T. Gurak, and P. Makinwa. "The Interstate Migration of U.S. Immigrants: Individual and Contextual Determinants," Social Forces 78, 3 (2000), co-authored with D.T. Gurak. "Determinants of Women's Decision-making Authority in Nigeria: The Ethnic Dimension," Sociological Forum, 14(3) (2000) Special Issue on Critical Demography edited by H. Horton, co-authored with P. Makinwa.

Council Member
Alaka Basu (ab54@cornell.edu)

Council Member
Graziella Caselli (graziella.caselli@uniroma1.it)

Country of nationality and residence: Italy
Education: Ph.D., Statistics and Demography, universita' "La Sapienza" Rome, 1972
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1979
Member of the IUSSP Committee on Adult mortality, 1989-1993
Chair, IUSSP Working group on Teaching, 1999-2001
Member, IUSSP Committee on "Adult Mortality", 1989-1993
Specialisation: Mortality/morbidity, ageing, training/documentation/information in demography.

Current Position: Director, Department of Demography, university of Rome "La Sapienza"; full professor of Demography, Faculty of Statistics, university of Rome "La Sapienza".
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Authority for Statistical Information, 1997-2003, Prime Minister's Office, Italy; honorary President of the European Association for Population Studies-EAPS; member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the "Max-Planck-Institut fur demografische Forschung Rostock", 1999-2004; member of the Research Panel on "New Data for an Aging World", National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 1999-2001; President of the European Association for Population Studies-EAPS, 1996-1999; Secretary General of the European Association for Population Studies-EAPS, 1996-1999; President of the Scientific Committee of the European Conference on Population, held in the Hague, 1999.
Recent publications : Author of articles published in Population Studies, Population, European Journal of Population, Genus. Co-author of the Treatise of Demography (8 volumes), in press in three languages (French, English and Italian), and Co-editor of two volumes of the IUSSP-Oxford series.

Council Member
John Casterline(jcasterline@popcouncil.org)

Country of nationality and residence: USA
Education: Ph.D., Sociology, university of Michigan, 1980
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1985
Member, Committee on the Comparative Analysis of Fertility, 1989-1993
Specialisation: Fertility/Family Planning, Near East, Africa

Current Position: Senior Associate, Research Division Population Council, New York.
Previous Positions: Director, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown university (1992-1994); Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown university (1988-1995); Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown university (1984-1988); Scientific Associate, World Fertility Survey, London, uK (1981-1984).
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Member, Scientific Review Committee, Social Science Research on Reproductive Health, World Health Organization; Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, International Family Planning Perspectives; Member, Editorial Committee, Studies in Family Planning.
Recent publications : Reproduction and Social Context in Africa (with Samuel Agyei-Mensah), Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 2001; Global Fertility Transition (with R. Bulatao), supplement to Population and Development Review 27, 2001; Social Diffusion and Fertility Transition, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., forthcoming; Obstacles to Contraceptive use in Pakistan : a study in Punjab, (with Z. Sathar and M. ul-Haque) in Studies in Family Planning, 2001.

Council Member
David A. Coleman (david.coleman@socres.ox.ac.uk)

Country of nationality and residence: united Kingdom
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1981
IUSSP Council Member (1998-2001)
Specialisation: Fertility, International Migration, demography of ethnic minority populations, comparative demographic trends in the developed world.

Current Position: Reader in Demography, Oxford university.
Previous Positions: Lecturer, Anthropology Department, university College London, 1970-1980.
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, and to the Ministers of Housing and of the Environment, 1985-1987. Consultant for the Home Office, for the united Nations and for private business. Member of the British Society for Population Studies, EAPS, PAA and AIDELF. Joint editor, European Journal of Population (Paris), 1992-2000.
Recent publications : The British Population: Patterns, Trends and Processes, Oxford University Press, with J. Salt (1992); International Migration: Regional Responses and Processes, united Nations ed., with M. Macura (1994); Europe's Population in the 1990s, OUP ed. (1996) and Ethnicity in the 1991 Census. Volume 1: Demographic Characteristics of Ethnic Minority Populations, London, HMSO, with J. Salt; uK Immigration Policy: Firm but Fair, and Failing?, Policy Studies (2001), Replacement Migration, or why everyone has to go to live in Korea, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2002).

Council Member
Peter McDonald (peter.mcdonald@anu.edu.au)

Country of nationality and residence: Australia
Education: Ph.D., Demography, Australian National university
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1980
Member, IUSSP Working Group on the Teaching of Demography, 1979-1983
Member, Committee on the Comparative Analysis of Fertility and Family Planning-II, 1985-1989
Chair, Exploratory Mission on Low Fertility, 1998
Chair, Working Group on Low fertility, 2000-2001
Specialisation: Fertility/Family Planning, ageing, theory.

Current Position: Professor of Demography and Head of the Demography and Sociology Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National university; Co-Director, Australian Centre for Population Research.
Previous Positions: Head of Research, Australian Institute of Family Studies; Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia on urban and regional policy.
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Member, Board of Trustees, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
Recent publications : Author of articles on population dynamics and their implications for ageing and the labour force.

Council Member
Zeba Sathar (zsathar@pcpak.org)

Council Member
Alan B. Simmons(asimmons@yorku.ca)

Country of nationality and residence: Canada
Education: Ph.D., Cornell university, 1970
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1974
IUSSP Council Member (1998-2001).
Member, Nominations Committee, 1985-1989.
Chair, IOC and Vice-president NOC for the XXII General Conference, Montréal, Canada, 1989-1994
Specialisation:Sociology, population and environment, international migration.

Current Position: Professor, Department of Sociology, York university, Toronto.
Previous Positions: Director of the Population and Development Programme at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa 1974-1984; Director, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York university, Toronto, 1985-89; Director, Graduate Studies Programme in Sociology, York university, 1993-94, Chair, Department of Sociology, York universty (2002- ).
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Founding Member and past President (1985-87), Canadian Population Society; Member, Editorial Board, International Migration Review, International Migration, the Cahiers Québécois de Démographie, and Canadian Population Studies.
Recent publications : International Migration, Refugees Flows and Human Rights in North America: The Impact of Trade and Restructuring (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1996), Journeys of Fear: Guatemalan Refugee Return and National Transformation (with Lisa North. Montreal, Kingston: McGill, Queen's university Press, 1999).

Council Member
James T. Trussell (trussell@princeton.edu)

Country of nationality and residence: USA
Education: Ph.D., Economics, Princeton university, 1975
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1976
Member, IUSSP Task Force on Collection, Evaluation and Adjustment of Demographic Data in LDCs, 1981-1985.
Co-chair, IUSSP Working Group on Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data, 1986-1989.
IUSSP Council Member (1998-2001).
Specialisation:Reproductive health and demographic methodology, particularly contraceptive technology, models of fertility, nuptiality, and mortality; methods for estimating demographic parameters from inaccurate and incomplete data; teenage fertility; AIDS; and contraceptive failure.

Current Position: Professor of Economics and PUBLIC Affairs, John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs, Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research and Acting Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of PUBLIC and International Affairs at Princeton university.
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Member, Board of Directors, Population Association of America, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the NARAL Foundation, and the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. Member, Technical advisory committee of Family Health International, and a member of the editorial advisory committees of several journals.
Recent publications : Author or co-author of numerous scientific publications .

Council Member
Zeng Yi (zengyi@duke.edu)

Country of nationality and residence: China
Education: Ph.D., Brussels Free university, 1986; Post-doctoral studies, Princeton university, 1986-87
Year of election as IUSSP member: 1987
Member, IUSSP Nominations Committee, 1993-1997.
Member, IUSSP Committee on Health and Longevity, 1999-present.
Member, IOC, XXII IUSSP General Population Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1993
Member, IOC, XXIII IUSSP General Population Conference, Beijing, China, 1997
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, IUSSP seminar Longer Life and Healthy Ageing, Beijing, China, October 2001
Specialisation:Population aging, family household dynamics, policy analysis.

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Center for Demographic Studies, Duke university; Professor, Institute of Population Research, Peking university; Distinguished Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Other Professional Activities Past and Present: Member, National Advisory Committee on Population, State Family Planning Commission of China; Member, International Advisory Committee, Ministry of Health of China, Chairman, National Advisory Committee, China National Research Center on Aging; Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council Panel on Research Agenda and New Data for an Aging World; Member, U.S. National Institute on Aging, Advisory Panel on Exceptional Longevity.
Recent publications : Family Dynamics in China: A Life Table Analysis, university of Wisconsin Press; China's Population Trends and Strategies, Peking university Press; more than 100 professional articles in international and national journals.