Hania Zlotnik


Independent Consultant

haniazlot@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demographie, Population et développement
 
Specialization: Structure par âge et par sexe, Estimations et projections, Migration internationale
 
Education: Doctorat (Ph.D, MD), Princeton University, Statistiques, 1978
 
Working languages: Anglais
Espagnol, Français
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA)


Curriculum Vitae:
Zlotnik_CV_Short_2014.docx
 
Professional Summary:

Currently an independent consultant, retired as Director of the Population Division of the United Nations in New York (January 2012). Worked for the Population Division since 1982, carrying out research on international migration, internal migration, urbanization, mortality, and population estimates and projections. Has focused on analyzing the quantitative aspects of fertility, mortality and migration. Has prepared manuals on demographic estimation and on the collection of international migration statistics. Has edited or written United Nations reports on international migration and development, female migration, trends in urbanization, population distribution and migration, population ageing, health and mortality, and population estimates and projections. Obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics and Demography from Princeton University (1978) and studied mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

 

Publications:

 (with David Bloom and Emmanuel Jimenez)  Seven Billion and Growing: A Twenty-First Century Perspective on Population, World Economic Forum, 2012.

“International migration and population ageing”, in Global Population Ageing: Peril and Promise, World Economic Forum, 2012, pp. 97-102.  Available at http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_GlobalPopulationAgeing_Report_2012…

“Does population matter for climate change?”, in Population Dynamics and Climate Change, Jose Miguel Guzman et al (eds), UNFPA and IIED, 2009, pp. 31-44.

(with R.E. Bilsborrow, Graeme Hugo and A. S. Oberai) International Migration Statistics: Guidelines for Improving Data Collection Systems, 1997, (International Labour Office: Geneva).

(with K. Hill and J. Trussell)  Manual X:  Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation.  Department of International Social and Economic Affairs.  United Nations publication (Sales No. E.83.XIII.2).  New York, N.Y. 1983.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
• Vice-President, Scientific Council, Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), France (since 2011)

• Member, Board of Directors, Population Connection, Washington, DC, USA (since 2013)

• Member, Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA (since 2012)