Ph.D., Economics and Demography, Princeton University, M.A., Economics, Princeton University, B.Sc., Industrial and Labor Relations, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Research: Dr. David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. In recent years, he has written extensively on primary, secondary, and tertiary education in developing countries and on the links among health status, population dynamics, and economic growth. Dr. Bloom has published over 300 articles, book chapters, and books.

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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.

Co-ordinator of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster 

Research: Gordon L Clark DSc (Oxon) FBA is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University, holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Peter's College and is Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics (Melbourne). Until recently he was also a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School. Previous academic appointments have been at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School and Monash University.

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Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich. He is President of both CESifo Group and IIPF. He received his doctorate and Habilitation  from the University of Mannheim. His recent publications include "Can Germany be Saved? The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State", MIT Press .

Current positions: President, Ifo Institute, Director, Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich,  Professor, University of Munich, chair for economics and public finance, CEO CESifo Inc.

Previous positions: Ass./Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada, Associate Professor, University of Mannheim,  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mannheim, Lecturer, Institute of Public Economics, University of Münster.

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Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, NIA Post-doctoral Trainee, University of Southern California.

Research: Merril Silverstein is professor of Gerontology and Sociology at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, after which he was a post-doctoral scholar (NIA trainee) at USC and Research Assistant Professor at Brown University. He joined the faculty of the USC Davis School of Gerontology as Assistant Professor in 1993, received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 1999, and in 2002 split his appointment equally with the USC Department of Sociology when he became full Professor.

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Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities and a researcher at the Population Research Institute at Nihon University, Tokyo. PhD in Sociology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Research: His areas of specialization are demography, aging and health. To understand aging societies and older adults' health in particular, he does interdisciplinary work with researchers in the field of sociology, economics, gerontology, psychology, anthropology, social work, epidemiology, psychiatry, dentistry, internal medicine, nursing, among others.

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