Asian MetaCentre: Principal Investigators

WOLFGANG LUTZ

Dr. Wolfgang Lutz, co-principal investigator, is leader of the Population Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis since 1992. He is also director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2002. He holds an association as adjunct professor for demography and social statistics at the University of Vienna and served as a Secretary General for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for the period 1998-2001. His main interests are in population forecasting, family demography and population-environment analysis.

Wolfgang Lutz studied philosophy, mathematics and statistics at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Helsinki and Pennsylvania. In 1983, he received his Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania and 1998 a second doctorate (Habilitation) from the University of Vienna. He has written/edited 19 books and more than 120 scientific articles and book chapters (including contributions to Nature and leading journals in the field of population). The most recent books are “Frontiers of Population Forecasting” (A supplement to Vol. 24, 1998, Population and Development; W. Lutz, J.W. Vaupel and D.A. Ahlburg, Eds.; 1999), “Population and Climate Change” (Cambridge University Press; B.C. O'Neill, F. L. MacKellar, and W. Lutz; 2001), “Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis” (A supplement to Vol. 28, 2002, Population and Development Review; W. Lutz, A. Prskawetz, and W.C. Sanderson, Eds.; 2002) and “The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century. New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development” (W. Lutz, W.C. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov, Eds.; Earthscan; 2003). He can be contacted at lutz@iiasa.ac.at.

VIPAN PRACHUABMOH

Associate Professor Vipan Prachuabmoh, Co-principal investigator, is also the Director of the College of Population Studies in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. In the College of Population Studies, she is involved in population and development issues. Some of her ongoing research projects include: The Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Disease and HIV / AIDS among Fishermen in the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea; The Impact of ASEAN Migration on Human Resource Development; and The Economic Crisis and Reproductive Health Care Provision and Use in Thailand.

Vipan Prachuabmoh received her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Chicago, USA. She was awarded the University of Chicago Unendowed and Hewlett Fund Fellowship from 1987-1990 and the Population Council Fellowship from 1990-1991. She also served on several government boards in the 1990s.

Vipan Prachuabmoh’s research interests lie in the fields of fertility, population and development. She has published many articles on these subjects. She can be contacted at rvipan@Chula.ac.th.

BRENDA YEOH

Associate Professor Brenda Yeoh, Co-principal investigator, oversees the Asian MetaCentre Headquarters. She read geography at Cambridge University and went on to complete her doctorate studies at Oxford University. Since 1991, she has been lecturing at the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. She is on the editorial advisory boards of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Asia-Pacific Migration Journal, Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene) and Gender, Place and Culture. She is the Singapore coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network, a full member of the International Geographical Union’s Geography and Gender Commission.

Brenda Yeoh is a social geographer whose main interest in population-related studies lies in migration, family and gender issues. In recent years, she has completed, in collaboration with other colleagues, research projects on modes of childcare in Singapore, migrant women as paid domestic labor in the Southeast Asian context and Singaporean skilled migration to China. Currently, she is involved in several collaborative research projects including Transnational Labour Migration and the Family in Southeast Asia; and Intergenerational Relationships, Fertility and the Family in Singapore.

Brenda Yeoh has published several books including Gender and Migration (Edward Elgar, 2000 with Katie Willis) and Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2002, with Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang), over 50 articles in internationally refereed journals, some 30 book chapters as well as various research reports. She can be contacted at geoysa@nus.edu.sg.

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