DAVID ANWYLL COLEMAN MA, Ph. D

David Coleman is Emeritus Professor of Demography in the University of Oxford and a Research Associate of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER david.coleman@spi.ox.ac.uk

FAMILY AND PERSONAL DETAILS

Born 26 June 1946, London. British nationality. Widower, three daughters.

EDUCATION
St Benedict’s School, Ealing London W5.
Oxford University. BA Zoology 1967 (2nd), Browne Scholarship in Zoology.
Diploma in Human Biology 1968 (Distinction).
London School of Economics. Ph.D. in Demography 1978. Supervisor: David Glass FRS.
Civil Service Selection Board 1968. First place.

EMPLOYMENT and other appointments
Professor Emeritus of Demography 2014 –
Professor of Demography, Oxford University 2002 – 2013
Reader in Demography, Oxford University, 1996 – 2002.
Lecturer in Demography, Oxford University 1980-85, 1987-
Special Adviser to Ministers for the Environment and for Housing 1985-7.
Special Adviser to Home Secretary, Rt. Hon Leon Brittan MP, 1985.
Lecturer in Physical Anthropology, University College London 1970 – 1980.
Science teacher, Advanced Teachers’ College, Kano (Voluntary Service Overseas) 1968-9.
Fellow of St. John’s College Oxford, 2002 – 2013, Lecturer 1997 – 2013.
Stipendiary Lecturer, St Catherine’s College, 1997 – 2013.
Director of Studies in Human Sciences, St Catherine’s College Oxford 2002 – 3
Dean of Degrees, St John’s College 2005 – 2015.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
International demographic trends in the industrial world and their socio-economic consequences. Immigration trends and policies; demography of ethnic minorities.
Other research include: demographic consequences of international migration, projections of ethnic minority populations, fertility divergence in the developed world, the social and economic consequences of population decline (with Robert Rowthorn, Cambridge), the Future of Human Reproduction (with Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna Institute of Demography and IIASA, and Stuart Basten, formerly of St John’s College Research Centre ).

TEACHING
Lectures, tutorials and practical classes in all areas of demography and population studies,
migration and ethnic minority demography, up to 2013.

ADMINISTRATION
Chairman of Examiners, Human Sciences, Oxford 1989-90, 95-98, 2002–4, 2007-8, 2011-12
Chairman, Human Sciences Standing Committee, Oxford University, 1984-85.
Chairman, Sociology sub-Faculty, Oxford University 1996 – 1999.
Chairman, Human Sciences Institute and Teaching Committee 2005 – 2008.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Social Policy 2011 – 2013.

CONSULTANCY and related activities
Home Office Review of national training of Probation Officers 1988-9 (with Jane Furniss).
United Nations Expert Group meetings in New York and Geneva on population policy (1988) integration of immigrants (1991) population ageing (2000), long-term population projections (2003).
1993 UN Economic Commission for Europe to co-ordinate programme on international population policies and on ‘Policies and Policy Challenges of Demographic Maturity’.
1993 Intergovernmental Consultations on Asylum, Geneva, to review the effectiveness of policies to moderate asylum pressures.
1997 UN Economic Commission for Europe to plan Regional Population Meeting, Budapest 1998.
1997 Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, Statistics Denmark, to prepare a book on international migration to Denmark.
1998 Review of Dutch ‘Demographic Priorities’ research programme on behalf of NWO,
Netherlands (the Dutch Scientific Research Organisation).
2003-4, consultancy with Prof. S. Kono, Reitaku University on low fertility, for Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare,
2007 and 2011 UK Government Office for Science,
2007 – 2012 ONS External Advisory Group on UK Population Projections, and ONS consultation on improving migration statistics 2008/9.
2013 preparation of ‘Foresight’ scan on demographic challenges for the UK Government Office for Science.
Reviews of programmes and individual academics for LSE, ANU, Hong Kong University, Statistics Canada, Government of Estonia, Government of Qatar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna Institute of Demography.
Business consultancies on demography, housing etc. Honorary adviser, Migrationwatch UK.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Fifty speeches to Institution of Highways and Transportation, Institute of Housing, National Federation of Housing Associations, Housebuilders’ Federation and similar organisations on housing policy and related matters.
Speeches and seminars on population issues at Ditchley Park, Wilton Park, Institute of Economic Affairs, Rowntree Trust, RIBA, European International Investors Institute, John Deutsch Institute Canada, Adam Smith Institute, Watson Wyatt, Le Cercle, The Club of Three, CIPFA, The Anglo-Spanish Tertulias, British Petroleum, Alta Advisers, The Hudson Institute, The UK Defence College, the US National Intelligence Council and others.
Invited academic papers presented in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bellagio, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Charleston, Cholpon – Ata, Cracow, Detroit, Dublin, Helsinki, Geneva, Groningen, The Hague, Luxemburg, Moscow, Naples, Olsztyn, Osnabrück, Ottawa, Paris, Peking, Riga, Rostock, Siena, Sofia, Strasburg, Taipei, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Toronto, Turin, Tokyo, San Diego, Seoul, Siena, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington, Wassenaar, Zacatecas, etc.
Plenary or keynote speaker on demographic subjects at UN European Population meetings in Geneva 1993, Budapest 1998, Geneva 2004. European Population Conference, The Hague 2001, 75th Jubilee conference of the Dutch Demographic Society, Amsterdam 2003, British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference 2004, Eurostat / UNECE Workshop on Population Projections, Vienna, 2005, Institute of Demography, Higher School of Economics. Moscow 2007 (inaugural lecture), Conference on International Migration, Austrian Academy of Sciences 2008, Conference on Policy Responses to Low Fertility, Sofia 2009.
Parliamentary submissions (variously written and oral) to House of Lords Select Committees on the European Union 2001, 2002, Religious Offences 2002, Economic Affairs (The Economic Impact of Immigration) 2007, House of Commons Treasury sub-Committee enquiry on ‘Counting the Population’, 2007.

JOURNALS and PROFESSIONAL OFFICES (past and present)
Editor, European Journal of Population (jointly with Dr. D. Courgeau, INED, Paris)
Editorial Board, Population and Development Review (New York); Journal of Biosocial Science, (Cambridge), Naselenye (Sofia). Council of Advisors, ‘Population Europe’.
Reviews of papers for Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Studies, Demographic Research, Population Trends, International Migration Review, Oxford Economic Papers, European Sociological Review etc.
Hon. Secretary, The Galton Institute, London (1993- 1995), Council 2012 – .
Elected to the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1998 and 2002. Chairman, IUSSP Publication Committee, 2001 – 2005.

PRESS, TV AND RADIO
Broadcasts on BBC TV, ITV, Radio 4, Radio 5, Radio London, Radio Oxford and other local radio, BBC World Service, Austrian, Italian, Korean, Romanian, Czech, Swedish TV and radio.
Articles for ‘Prospect’, ‘Standpoint’, ‘The Spectator’, ‘The Times’, ”the Daily Telegraph’, The Independent’, ‘The Guardian’ , ‘The Sunday Times’ “The Daily Express’ , ‘The Evening Standard’ etc. on population, housing, immigration, DIY etc. Sundry letters on demographic and other subjects.

In 2012 awarded the Valentynevskiye Chteniya Gold Medal by the Lomonosov Moscow State University for contributions to demographic science and education, and in 2016 the Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences, at the Population Council, New York.

VOLUNTARY WORK, POLITICS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
President, University College London branch Association of University Teachers 1979-80
Member of Council and honorary adviser, Migrationwatch UK 2003 –
Board Member, Orbit Housing Association 1988 – 1993.
Director, Telford Housing Company 1995 – 2007.
Joint founder of local residents’ association in North Oxford and in Kentish Town, London.
Voluntary Service Overseas, Kano, Northern Nigeria 1968-69, teaching science.
Parliamentary Candidate 1983, local election candidate 1974-1984 (failed).

PERSONAL INTERESTS
Music. Naval and military matters. Natural history. Architecture. Astronomy.