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Confirmed speakers and chairs

• Prof. Sir John Beddington, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government
• Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Public Health and Environment, WHO
• Prof. Anthony Costello, Co-Director, UCL Institute for Global Health
• Dr Monica Das Gupta, Senior Demographer, The World Bank
• Prof. Danny Dorling, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
• Dr Susan George, President of the Board, Transnational Institute
• Prof. Sarah Harper, Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing
• Dr Karen Hardee, Population Reference Bureau
• Dr Betsy Hartmann, Director, Population and Development Program Hampshire College
• Dr Sarah Hawkes, UCL Centre for International Health and Development
• Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
• Ms Shireen Jejeebhoy, Population Council, India
• Mrs Jeannette Kagame, HE the First Lady of Rwanda (delivered by HE Ernest Rwamucyo)
• Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, Minister of State for Finance/ Plannning, Uganda
• Prof. Georgina Mace, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London
• Dr Mairo Mandara, Advisor to the SSA to the Nigerian President on MDGs
• Prof. Mark Maslin, Head of Department, UCL Geography
• Prof. Costas Meghir, UCL and Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Dr Vik Mohan, Blue Ventures
• Ms Karen Newman, Population and Sustainability Network
• Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA
• Ms Sara Parkin OBE, Founder Director, Forum for the Future
• Mr Fred Pearce, author
• Dr Ndola Prata, Scientific Director, Bixby Centre for Population Health, University of California Berkeley
• Prof. Chris Rapley CBE, UCL Chair of Climate Science
• Prof. Li Shuzhuo, Population Research Institute, Xi’an Jiaqtong University
• Prof. Ronald Skeldon, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
• Prof. Judith Stephenson, UCL Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research
• Dr Cecilia Tacoli, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Ms Siri Tellier, University of Copenhagen
• Prof. Brenda Yeoh, Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, National University of Singapore
• Ms Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division, UN
• Dr Eliya Zulu, Executive Director, African institute for Development Policy and President, Union for African Population Studies

Download the conference booklet with speaker bios here

Committee

The UCL-Leverhulme Trust Population Footprints symposium was coordinated by the UCL Institute for Global Health working towards the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health.

UCL Grand Challenges is the mechanism through which UCL applies its collective expertise to provide humanity with sustainable and equitable solutions to its many profound and complex problems.

We are intent on providing wise and timely counsel to address significant intellectual, cultural, scientific, economic, environmental and health issues, and to making that counsel compelling to policymakers and practitioners.

UCL Organising Committee

• Sarah Ball, Research & Programme Development Manager, UCL Institute for Global Health
• Dr Sarah Bell, Lecturer, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Co-Director of the UCL Environment Institute
• Prof. Anthony Costello, Director Centre for International Health & Development & Co-Director UCL Institute for Global Health
• Susan Crane, International Health Research Programme Director, UCL Institute for Global Health
• Dr Steve Cross, Public Engagement Co-ordinator, UCL Public Engagement Unit
• Prof. Nora Groce, Director, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre
• Dr Sarah Hawkes, Reader in Global Health, UCL Centre for International Health & Development
• Prof. Anne Johnson, Co-Director UCL Institute for Global Health
• Ash Kotecha, Events Manager, UCL Institute of Child Health
• Prof. Maria Lee, UCL Centre for Ethics and Law
• Caren Levy, Director, UCL Development Planning Unit
• Rikke Osterlund, Administrator, UCL Institute for Global Health
• Prof. Mark Maslin, Head of UCL Geography Department
• Dr Pablo Mateos, Lecturer in Human Geography, UCL Geography
• Dr Sara Randall, Lecturer, Biological Anthropology and Deputy Head of UCL Department of Anthropology
• Dr Cecilia Tacoli, Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Prof. Judith Stephenson, Margaret Pyke Chair of Sexual & Reproductive Health, Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research
• Nicholas Tyndale, Communications Director, UCL Grand Challenges
• Prof. Ann Varley, Reader, UCL Geography

Advisory Committee

• Mustafa Abba, Healthy Planet National Director, MedSIN
• Jerry Ash, Deputy Team Leader, AIDS and Reproductive Health, Department for International Development, UK AID
• Aoife Nic Carthaigh, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Universal Access Interact Worldwide
• Prof. John Guillebaud, Patron, Population Matters
• Dr Karen Hardee, Senior Visiting Fellow, Population Reference Bureau
• Sandra Kabir, Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, UK
• Dr Susannah Mayhew, Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Health and Policy, Centre for Population Studies, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Karen Newman, Network Co-ordinator, Population & Sustainability Network
• Dr Iqbal Shah, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization
• Prof. Ronald Skeldon, Department of Geography, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex