DAVID ANWYLL COLEMAN MA, Ph.D

David Coleman read Zoology at Oxford University (Queen’s) and studied for the Ph.D in Demography at the London School of Economics. From 1968-69 he taught science at Advanced Teachers’ College, Kano 1968-9 as a VSO volunteer.. He was appointed lecturer in Biological Anthropology at University College London from 1970-1980, and lecturer in Demography at Oxford University from 1980. Appointed Professor in 2002, he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2013. He was a Fellow of St. John’s College from 2001 – 2013, and a Stipendiary Lecturer at St John’s and at St Catherine’s College. Awards include the Valentinevskiye Chteniya Gold Medal of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 2016 the Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for Communication in Demography, Population Council, New York.

Research interests include demographic trends in the developed world, the prospect of population decline, immigration and the demography of ethnic minorities. On these and other subjects he has written or edited eight books and over 180 academic papers. Current projects include a book evaluating the impact of international migration on the United Kingdom. He has been an adviser to the Home Office, the United Nations and business. His wife Sarah Babington, Group IT Manager of W.Lucy and Co, died in 2015. He has three daughters , eight grandchildren and two dogs.

Among other things he is interested in astronomy, naval history and model-making.

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1983 (Islington North) and was the Special Adviser to the Home Secretary and later to the Ministers for Housing and Environment in the UK Government 1985 – 7. Voluntary work included helping to set up the think tank Migrationwatch, Residents’ Associations in Kentish Town, NW5 and in North Oxford, and serving on the Board of Orbit Housing Association.