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	Click here for Plenary Session Abstracts Indigenous Demography Dr Margaret Michalowski – Statistics Canada Dr. Margaret Michalowski is currently a Chief in the Census Subject Matter Program of Statistics Canada. In the course of her professional career, she has worked in academic institutions, research institutes and federal departments. Her research interests include international and internal migration, ethnicity and aboriginal statistics, population ageing, demographic estimates and projections, and quantitative methods. Dr. Michalowski is the author of over 50 papers and reports published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She is actively involved in work of scientific societies (a past member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Population Society) and international organizations. She has a Ph.D. in statistics and demography from the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Dr John Taylor – Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), Australian National University John Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, the Australian National University, and a member of the Australian Population Association. For the past twenty years his major research interests have focussed on the measurement and policy implications of demographic and socioeconomic change among Australia’s Indigenous peoples. He has published widely on these issues in Australian and international books and journals, and his work has informed policy development for Federal and State and Territory governments, industry, and Indigenous organisations. He has recently co-edited the book Indigenous Peoples and Population: Mobility in Australasia and North America (Routledge) and completed a series of regional studies on Indigenous participation in the mining industry. Dr Taylor’s current research includes management of a national project for the Ministerial Council on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (MCATSIA) on the spatial structure of Indigenous socioeconomic status. Policy Responses to Social Change Professor Ross Guest – Griffith University, Australia Professor Ross Guest is Professor of Economics in the Griffith Business School and Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Before joining Griffith University in 1998 he spent 8 years at Monash University in Melbourne where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1997. He has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Higher Education from Griffith University. His current research programme is concerned with the macroeconomics of population ageing in Australia and other regions of the world. He has published articles on this and related topics in, for example, The Journal of Macroeconomics, The Economic Record, The Review of Development Economics, The Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, The Singapore Economic Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, and Economic Modelling. He has received three grants from the Australian Research Council to support this work. Professor Wolfgang Lutz – Vienna Institute of Demography Professor Wolfgang Lutz is leader of the World Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also Affiliated Professor at the College of Population Studies of Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development, chair of the scientific program committee of the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi and member of the Board of Directors of the Population Reference Bureau. He is on the editorial board of several demographic journals. In 1998-2001 he served as Secretary-General of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), was coordinator of the United Nations University/IUSSP/IIASA "Global Science Panel on Population and Environment" 2001-2003 and was demographic coordinator of the European Union Observatory on the Social Situation, Demography and Family 1999-2004. Wolfgang Lutz holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania (1983) and a second doctorate (Habilitation) in social statistics from the University of Vienna. He has authored and edited 24 scientific books and published more than 160 refereed articles, including six contributions in Science and Nature. His most recent books include: The Future Population of the World (1996); Frontiers of Population Forecasting (1998); Population and Climate Change (2001); Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis(2003); The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development (2004)and The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union (2006). The Demography of Australia's Northern Neighbours Professor Brenda Yeoh – National University of Singapore Professor Brenda S.A. Yeoh (D Phil Oxford) is Professor, Department of Geography as well as the Head of Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Research Cluster and Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre at the University’s Asia Research Institute. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and post-colonial cities; gender; migration and transnational communities. Dr John Bryant – Mahidol University, Thailand Dr John Bryant has a BA Hons in History and Mathematics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University. He has worked at Khon Kaen University, Thailand, the University of Otago, New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury, and Mahidol University, Thailand. He has also carried out numerous consultancies for international agencies including Unicef, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Bank. Since January 2007 he has been a Senior Research Statistican at Statistics New Zealand. John is fluent in Thai and Lao, having spent a total of eight years in Thailand. He has also travelled extensively in South and Southeast Asia, including six months in Vietnam for PhD fieldwork. John's main research interests are demographic projections, demographic transition theory, statistical computing, and migration. However, besides these areas, he has also published on such topics as Vietnamese households, payment mechanisms in Thai hospitals, and the economics of population ageing in New Zealand.

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Indigenous Demography

Dr Margaret Michalowski – Statistics Canada

Dr. Margaret Michalowski is currently a Chief in the Census Subject Matter Program of Statistics Canada. In the course of her professional career, she has worked in academic institutions, research institutes and federal departments. Her research interests include international and internal migration, ethnicity and aboriginal statistics, population ageing, demographic estimates and projections, and quantitative methods. Dr. Michalowski is the author of over 50 papers and reports published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She is actively involved in work of scientific societies (a past member of the Executive Council of the Canadian Population Society) and international organizations. She has a Ph.D. in statistics and demography from the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.

Dr John Taylor – Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), Australian National University

John Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, the Australian National University, and a member of the Australian Population Association.
For the past twenty years his major research interests have focussed on the measurement and policy implications of demographic and socioeconomic change among Australia’s Indigenous peoples. He has published widely on these issues in Australian and international books and journals, and his work has informed policy development for Federal and State and Territory governments, industry, and Indigenous organisations. He has recently co-edited the book Indigenous Peoples and Population: Mobility in Australasia and North America (Routledge) and completed a series of regional studies on Indigenous participation in the mining industry.
Dr Taylor’s current research includes management of a national project for the Ministerial Council on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (MCATSIA) on the spatial structure of Indigenous socioeconomic status.

Policy Responses to Social Change

Professor Ross Guest – Griffith University, Australia

Professor Ross Guest is Professor of Economics in the Griffith Business School and Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Before joining Griffith University in 1998 he spent 8 years at Monash University in Melbourne where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1997. He has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Higher Education from Griffith University.
His current research programme is concerned with the macroeconomics of population ageing in Australia and other regions of the world. He has published articles on this and related topics in, for example, The Journal of Macroeconomics, The Economic Record, The Review of Development Economics, The Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, The Singapore Economic Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, and Economic Modelling. He has received three grants from the Australian Research Council to support this work.

Professor Wolfgang Lutz – Vienna Institute of Demography

Professor Wolfgang Lutz is leader of the World Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also Affiliated Professor at the College of Population Studies of Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development, chair of the scientific program committee of the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi and member of the Board of Directors of the Population Reference Bureau. He is on the editorial board of several demographic journals. In 1998-2001 he served as Secretary-General of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), was coordinator of the United Nations University/IUSSP/IIASA "Global Science Panel on Population and Environment" 2001-2003 and was demographic coordinator of the European Union Observatory on the Social Situation, Demography and Family 1999-2004.
Wolfgang Lutz holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania (1983) and a second doctorate (Habilitation) in social statistics from the University of Vienna. He has authored and edited 24 scientific books and published more than 160 refereed articles, including six contributions in Science and Nature. His most recent books include: The Future Population of the World (1996); Frontiers of Population Forecasting (1998); Population and Climate Change (2001); Population and Environment: Methods of Analysis(2003); The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development (2004)and The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union (2006).

The Demography of Australia's Northern Neighbours

Professor Brenda Yeoh – National University of Singapore

Professor Brenda S.A. Yeoh (D Phil Oxford) is Professor, Department of Geography as well as the Head of Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Research Cluster and Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre at the University’s Asia Research Institute. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and post-colonial cities; gender; migration and transnational communities.

Dr John Bryant – Mahidol University, Thailand

Dr John Bryant has a BA Hons in History and Mathematics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University. He has worked at Khon Kaen University, Thailand, the University of Otago, New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury, and Mahidol University, Thailand. He has also carried out numerous consultancies for international agencies including Unicef, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Bank. Since January 2007 he has been a Senior Research Statistican at Statistics New Zealand.
John is fluent in Thai and Lao, having spent a total of eight years in Thailand. He has also travelled extensively in South and Southeast Asia, including six months in Vietnam for PhD fieldwork.
John's main research interests are demographic projections, demographic transition theory, statistical computing, and migration. However, besides these areas, he has also published on such topics as Vietnamese households, payment mechanisms in Thai hospitals, and the economics of population ageing in New Zealand.

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