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Education
11/2005 - 09/2009 Ph.D. in Demography
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dissertation Title: Population and Transition in Mongolia.
Committee: Michel Oris, Gilbert Ritschard, Jacques Vallin and Philippe Wanner.
09/2002 - 07/2004 D.E.A. (Diplôme d'études approfondies (= M.Phil)) in Demography, with 'Grande Distinction'
Institute of Demography, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Dissertation Title: La nuptialité en Inde. Une analyse spatiale des tendances et déterminants.
Committee: Dominique Tabutin, Bruno Schoumaker and Eric Vilquin.
10/1998 - 07/2002 Licence (= M.A.) in Economic and Social History (with Minor in Environmental Sciences)
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dissertation Title: Systèmes démographiques et structures familiales en Asie : entre culture et stratégie.
2003 Arditi Award in History (Best Master's thesis in History, University of Geneva).
Employment
01/2022 - Population Affairs Officer, Demographic Analysis Section (Acting Chief 09/2022 - 01/2024 )
Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA.
07/2015 - 12/2021 Population Affairs Officer, Population Estimates and Projections Section
Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA.
08/2013 - 06/2015 Associate Statistician, Demographic Statistics Section
Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA.
03/2009 - 08/2013 Associate Population Affairs Officer, Population Estimates and Projections Section
Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, USA.
09/2007 - 01/2009 Visiting researcher and lecturer, Population Teaching and Research Center,
School of Economic Studies, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
03/2004 - 02/2009 Teaching assistant (from 09/2007 to 01/2009 on academic leave), Department of Economic History
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
10/2003 - 02/2009 Teaching assistant (from 09/2007 to 01/2009 on academic leave), Department of Econometrics
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Awards/Distinctions/Grants
2008 Certificate of appreciation, National University of Mongolia.
2008 Certificate of appreciation, School of Economic Studies, National University of Mongolia.
2007 Grants from the Geneva-Asia Society, the General Fund of the University of Geneva, and the Boninchi Foundation for a 11-month stay at the Population Teaching and Research Center, School of Economic Studies, National University of Mongolia.
2006 Grant from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research to participate to the international seminar ‘Mortality in countries of the former USSR. Fifteen years after the break-up: Change or continuity?’, October, 12-14, Kiev, Ukraine.
2005 Laureate of the students competition, special conference Longitudinal Studies and Demographic Challenges in the 21st Century, Canadian Population Federation, November 18-19, Montréal, Canada.
2005 Grant from the Boninchi Foundation to participate to the special conference Longitudinal Studies and Demographic Challenges in the 21st Century, Canadian Population Federation, November 18-19, Montréal, Canada.
2005 Grant from the National Organising Committee to participate to the XXVth International Population Conference, 18-23 July, Tours, France.
2004 DEA (=M. Phil.) in Demography, with 'Grande Distinction'.
2003 Laureate of the 2003 Arditi Award in History (Best Master’s thesis in History, University of Geneva).
Professional services
Session Organizer (invited) and Chair, "Recent fertility change: quantum and tempo effects" and "Recent fertility change: quantum and tempo effects. Further perspectives", XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, 26-31 August 2013.
Member, Scientific Programme Committee, Session Organizer “Projecting populations and demographic components”, and "Projecting mortality", XXVIII IUSSP International Population Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 29 October – 4 November 2017.
Reviewer (pro bono), 2014 Population and Housing Census of Myanmar, thematic reports on Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Nuptiality and Fertility, Population Dynamics, and Population Projections, 2015–2016.
Editorial appointment
Associate editor (2018-2021), Revue Quetelet/Quetelet Journal
International Advisory Board (2021- ), Asian Population Studies
Ad hoc reviewer for 142 papers (see verified reviews):
- Asian Population Studies (15)
- Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia) (1)
- Biodemography and Social Biology (1)
- BMC International Health and Human Rights (1)
- BMC Nutrition (2)
- BMC Public Health (1)
- BMC Women's Health (1)
- Canadian Studies in Population (2)
- Comparative Population Studies (3)
- Demographic Research (2)
- Demography (1)
- Économie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics (1)
- Economies (2)
- European Journal of Population (2)
- Gates Open Research (1)
- Genus (11)
- Historical Methods (1)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (4)
- International Journal of Social Welfare (1)
- Journal of Biosocial Science (3)
- Journal of Comparative Human Biology – HOMO (1)
- Journal of Health Research (4)
- Journal of Family Studies (1)
- Journal of Marriage and Family (1)
- Journal of Official Statistics (7)
- Journal of Population Research (4)
- Pakistan Journal of Statistics (3)
- PLOS One (7)
- Population (8)
- Population & Societies (1)
- Population and Development Review (2)
- Population Health Metrics (2)
- Population Research and Policy Review (12)
- Population Review (1)
- Population, Space and Place (4)
- Population Studies (4)
- Remote Sensing (1)
- SAGE Open (5)
- Scientific Reports (3)
- Studies in Family Planning (2)
- Sustainability (12)
- Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (1)
- World Medical & Health Policy (2)
Membership: International Union for the Scientific Studies of Population (IUSSP), Asian Population Association, Société académique de Genève.