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George Leeson George Leeson is a British demographer. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He is External Lecturer in Demography at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Leeson trained as a mathematician and statistician at Oxford and as a demographer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the University of Copenhagen.

Dr. Leeson’s main research interests are in the socio-demographic aspects of ageing populations, covering both demographic modelling of population development and the analysis of national and international data sets.

Dr. Leeson has directed the Danish Longitudinal Future Study, which elucidates the attitudes and aspirations of future generations of older people in Denmark, and he is Principal Investigator with Professor Sarah Harper on the Global Ageing Study, a survey of 44,000 men and women aged 40 to 80 in 24 countries.

Dr. Leeson’s current research includes the demographic inequalities of global ageing, the changing populations of Europe, migration and migrants in Europe, health and social eldercare migrant workers, migration and fertility in Central and Eastern Europe, and the demographics of increasing longevity.

Dr. Leeson is a leading member of The Complex Environmental Population Interactions Project which unites key demographers, economists, anthropologists, philosophers and environmentalists to address through research, modeling and scenarios, the range of complex interactions between environmental and demographic change over the first half of the 21st century.

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