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Aline Désesquelles is a Senior Researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) since 1998. After a PhD in demography (University of Bordeaux), she did a postdoc at the University of Chicago, where she was involved in research projects on the biodemography of aging. From 2004 to 2006 she headed the Unit of demographic studies and surveys at the French statistical office (INSEE). She was involved in the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) as INED's team leader for developing the questionnaire. Her major research contributions are in the field of mortality and cause-of-death analysis. She coordinates the international MultiCause network and chairs the IUSSP Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death. She also has a long-standing interest in prison populations. She organized the first nationally representative survey on health and disability in French prisons (“HID-prisons 2001”), and a survey on soon-to-be-released prison inmates (2024). She served as editor for the European Journal of Population (2014-2016) and chief editor for Population (2017-2020). From 2007 to 2009, she was Dean of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) and INED Director of International Affairs. From 2020 to 2024, she was INED's Deputy Director for Research. She is a Research affiliate at IRIS and at the University of Pennsylvania.