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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Presenters
Pages 85-90

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... John Bongaarts is a Population Council vice president and distinguished scholar, where he has worked since 1973. He serves as chairman of the National Research Council Panel on Population Projections.
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From page 86...
... Wolfgang Lutz is leader of the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, professor of applied statistics at the WU-Vienna, and professorial research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing. He is coprincipal investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population.
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... Brian O'Neill leads the Integrated Assessment Modeling group within the Climate Change Research section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He worked previously at the Environmental Defense Fund and on the faculty of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
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From page 88...
... in economics from the University of Massachusetts. Karen Seto is co-chair of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and a coordinating lead author for Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report.
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... He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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