Landis MacKellar, Project Leader
mckellar@iiasa.ac.at

Landis MacKellar is an economist specialising in economic demography. His research has covered population and development, population and the environment, the economics of population aging, and most recently, health economics. From 1998–2003 he led IIASA's project on Social Security Reform.

Dr. MacKellar holds M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an M. Sc. from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Prior to joining IIASA in 1994, he worked for the International Labour Organisation in Geneva and Africa and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queens College of the City University of New York and an economist at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates. He is an active consultant in the development field, having worked for the UN, the EC, and the Asian Development Bank on projects in over twenty countries.

Clara Cohen, Research Scholar
cohen@iiasa.ac.at


Clara Cohen joined the Health and Global Change Program in June 2007 and is conducting research on urban health issues. Previously, she worked with the US National Academy of Sciences, leading a partnership with the Nigerian Academy of Science through the African Science Academy Development Initiative, a 10-year effort to strengthen the capability of African science academies to inform national health policy.

She also directed studies of US agricultural research policy, including a congressionally mandated review of the US Department of Agriculture’s agricultural research agencies, with the National Academies’ Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources from 2000 to 2003.

From 1998–2000, she worked at the US Agency for International Development’s Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. While at USAID, she managed agricultural and natural resource management research grants to bring expertise from US universities and international agricultural research centers to bear on critical development questions.

Clara Cohen has served as a technical adviser to the US government for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She holds a BA in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in plant physiology and molecular biology from Cornell University.

Andrew Noymer, Research Scholar
noymer@uci.edu

Andrew Noymer is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. His research covers demography and historical epidemiology, with specialization in the demography of health and of influenza epidemics.

He was a participant in the 1997 Young Scientists Summer Program and returned to the Institute in 2006 to work on the Health and Global Change Project. Dr. Noymer received his PhD (2006) in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has an MSc in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and an AB in biology from Harvard.

Isolde Prommer, Guest Research Scholar
prommer@iiasa.ac.at

Isolde Prommer joined the Health and Global Change Program in January 2008 as a Guest Research Scholar. She will continue to work on her thesis studying the impacts of HIV/AIDS on farm productivity in Namibia. From 1997 – 2007 Isolde worked with the World Population Program (POP) and part-time with the Population and Climate Change Program (PCC) in 2006 - 2007, and the Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) in 2004 - 2005.

Isolde holds a degree (Dipl.-Ing., equivalent to MSc) in landscape ecology and planning from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria, and is currently involved in two PhD programs, one at the BOKU in regional planning and the other at the University of Vienna in demography.

Her research interests are population and agricultural development, impacts of HIV/AIDS on farming systems and farm productivity, gender and environmental issues in developing countries, methodology development for small area population projections, comparative and empirical demography, error analysis of historical population projections, expert knowledge in assumption making of population projections, and migration and environmental degradation.

Isolde has been involved in several EU-sponsored projects such as Evaluating Alternative Paths for Sustainable Development in Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia, SENSOR, MicMac, and PLUREL, and in other external funded projects such as the Global Science Panel on Population and Environment, which provided input into the "Johannesburg Conference", World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002.

Prior to IIASA, Isolde gained professional experience in environmental impact assessment, in urban, regional and community planning, as well as in international planning competition. In 1997 she participated in IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program. She is a member of the Young Integrated Assessment Network at the International Centre for Integrated Studies (ICIS) in Maastricht, and of the Population and Environment Research Network (PERN).

David Horlacher, Collaborator
horlache@middlebury.edu

David Horlacher is currently Christian A. Johnson Visiting Fellow and Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

Receiving his doctorate in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1974, he served as professor of economics at Bucknell and Susquehanna Universities. During this period, he was a consultant for USAID and the Futures Group and chaired the Population Panel of the South East Asia Development Advisory Group. He was also a consultant, and later staff member, of the Population Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

In 1980 he was appointed Chief of the Population and Development Section of the UN Population Division in New York. Since joining the faculty of Middlebury College in 1991, he has served on several UN missions and taught in Kazakhstan and Vietnam. He participated in the work of the Social Security program at IIASA and was a coauthor of its publication, “The Economic Impacts of Population Aging in Japan”.

Currently he is reviewing scientific findings on the determinants, consequences and policy issues as part of the IIASA project on Health and Global Change.

Steven Ney, Collaborator
ney.steven@gmail.com

Steven Ney completed his doctorate in political science at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. In July 2005, Dr. Ney took up his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Singapore Management University.

Trained as a policy analyst at the University of London, Dr. Ney has worked on a wide range of policy issues in a number of research institutes including the LOS Center in Bergen, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR) in Vienna and, not least, IIASA.

Starting as a researcher of environmental issues, particularly climate change, Dr. Ney has increasingly focused on issues surrounding societal and policy responses to demographic ageing in Europe and South-East Asia. He is currently exploring institutional change in the field of health care policy within the Health and Global Change Project.

Elisabeth Kawczynski, Project Secretary
kawczyn@iiasa.ac.at

Deirdre Zeller, Project Secretary
(currently on maternity leave)
zeller@iiasa.ac.at

Responsible for this page: Elisabeth Kawczynski
Last updated: 24 Feb 2011