We are pleased to announce the programme for the International Conference on Population Geographies 2015.

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS & FORMAL OPENING

Wednesday 1 July 0845 - 0930

Mr David Kalisch
Australian Statistician

David W. Kalisch was appointed the 15th Australian Statistician on 11 December 2014. As Agency Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics he is accountable for the functions and operations of the Bureau. He has also been appointed as the non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission. Mr Kalisch is an economist with public sector experience in research and analysis, policy development and service delivery. He has an interest in labourmarkets, macroeconomics, retirement incomes, welfare to work strategies and health policy. He has pursued organisational performance and renewal through recent leadership responsibilities. Mr Kalisch was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for four years, a Commissioner at the Productivity Commission and a Deputy Secretary in the Commonwealth Department of Health . He has had Senior Executive roles in a range of Departments since 1991, has had two appointments at the Organisation for Economic Co -operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, and was a member of the Australian Delegation to the OECD. He studied economics at the University of Adelaide, is a Public Policy Fellow at the Australian National University and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

PLENARY 1:  MIGRATION IN THE MODERN WORLD

Dr Nikola Sander
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Nikola Sander is a population geographer/spatial demographer with research interests in internal and international migration, urbanisation, population projections and data visualisation. She joined the Vienna Institute of Demography as a research scholar in 2010 after receiving her doctorate from the University of Queensland in Australia. Her research has been published in leading international journals, including Science, and has been written about in New Scientist, Scientific American, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and many more. Dr Sander has also been active in creating data visualisations such as “The Global Flow of People” for effectively communicating science to peers, policy makers and the general public. Her circular visualisation of migration flows has been selected for the forthcoming 2015 edition of Best American Infographics.

Professor Phillip Rees
University of Leeds

Phil Rees is Professor Emeritus of Population Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. He remains research archive. Since reaching pensionable age he has been part of a European network (DEMIFER) implementing policy scenario projections for EU regions. He has led projects (one current) to forecast the local authority populations of England by ethnicity, measuring the speed and diffusion of the third demographic (ethnic) transition, driven by a continuing stream of immigrants.  He has also researched the consequences of population ageing, in particular for health. In 2014 he read more than 300 research papers, serving on the Geography Sub-Panel of the Research Excellence Framework that assessed the quality of UK university research. He edits the International Population Studies series for Ashgate Publishing and would be pleased to talk to ICPG delegates about their book ideas.

Professor Ellen Percy Kraly
Colgate University

Ellen Percy Kraly, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Geography at Colgate University, New York, and is director of the Environmental Studies Program. She served as Editor of the International Migration Review, 2011-2014, and director of Colgate’s Upstate Institute, 2006-2011. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Immigration Statistics and has prepared reports on topics including international migration data and immigration policies for the United Nations Statistical Commission, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.  Her current research program has three themes:  (1) refugee policy and forced migration; (2) ethical and human rights dimensions of the use of population data systems in policy and administration, with particular reference to Aboriginal affairs in Australia; and (3) population vulnerabilities, community health, and HIV/AIDS in eastern Africa.  During the past ten years she has worked closely with Noongar people of Western Australia regarding the art of Carrolup Settlement. At Colgate, she teaches subjects in population geography, international migration and refugee studies, medical geography, environmental studies, and research methods. 

Professor Peter Macdonald
Australian National University

Peter McDonald is Professor of Demography in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population for the years, 2010-2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Irene B. Taeuber Award of the Population Association of America. He is frequently consulted on the issue of population futures (causes, consequences and policies) by governments around the world, especially in Australia, Europe and East Asia. He is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research. He was a member of the Australian Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration in 2012-13 and of the panel of the Australian Government’s 2014 Independent Review of Integrity in the Subclass 457 Programme. In 2008, he was appointed as a Member in the Order of Australia and, in 2012, as an inaugural ANU Public Policy Fellow.

Professor Alan Lopez
University of Melbourne

Professor Alan Lopez is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and the Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at The University of Melbourne. He is also Director of the Global Burden of Disease Group in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He held prior appointments at the University of Queensland and at the World Health Organization. He is the co-author with Christopher Murray of the seminal Global Burden of Disease Study (1996) which has greatly influenced debates about priority setting and resource allocation in health.

PLENARY 3:  ADVANCES IN APPLIED DEMOGRAPHY

Professor David Swanson
University of California

Professor David Swanson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology/Population Studies from the University of Hawai’i and has served as a member of the U. S. Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee and as editor of Population Research and Policy Review. He has published widely in the field of applied demography, particularly on methods of small area estimation and forecasting including the State and Local Population Projections: Methodology and Analysis (2001) and its revision, A Practitioner’s Guide to State and Local Population Projections (2013), and served as co-editor of The Methods and Materials of Demography, 2nd Edition (2004).