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How Population Change will Transform Our World

Population change is a major challenge for the 21^st century. But it’s not just a question of rising numbers of humans on the planet. Different regions of the world are at different stages in the ‘demographic transition’, from high birth and death rates to dwindling childbearing and ever-lengthening lives. While Africa struggles to reduce fertility, the Middle East copes with the unemployment of its youth bulge, and Europe and the US are faced with ageing populations.  All these challenges are inextricably linked with migration. Given the backdrop of global environmental and economic pressures, what are the implications for the future? What hope for future generations? For women in poorer parts of the world? For young people trying to find work in overly-full labour markets? And for governments balancing the needs of local and immigrant populations? Sarah Harper highlights the opportunities and stark challenges we face in the coming decades.  

Programme Outline

5:30pm – 6:30pm    Public Lecture by Professor Sarah Harper (Q&A Session to follow)

Speaker

Professor Sarah Harper

Sarah serves on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, which advises the Prime Minister on the scientific evidence for strategic policies and frameworks. She currently chairs the UK government Foresight Review on Ageing Societies, and the European Ageing Index Panel for the UNECE Population Unit. She is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Sarah was the first holder of the International Chair in Old Age Financial Security, at the University of Malaya (2009/10) and her research was recognised by the 2011 Royal Society for Public Health: Arts and Health Research Award. 

Sarah has a background in anthropology and population studies and her early research focused on migration and the social implications of demographic change. Her current research on demographic change addresses the global and regional impact of falling fertility and increasing longevity, with a particular interest in Asia and Africa. Recent research has focused on women’s education and empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of this on falling fertility rates.  Sarah has just completed a monograph on Population Challenges for Oxford University Press (2015), and is working her next book for Cambridge University Press Population and Environmental Change.

Following her doctoral work in population studies at Oxford, Sarah trained with the BBC as a News and Current Affairs Reporter and Producer, working in both TV and Radio for BBC News and BBC News Night. After leaving the BBC she took up a lectureship at the University of London, and subsequently moved to the USA where she was professor in public policy at the University of Chicago. On returning to the University of Oxford she founded the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing with funding from the US National Institutes of Health.  

Throughout her academic career, Sarah has combined academic research with external professional commitments.  She was Chair of  HSBC’s  Global Ageing Forum and is a former Trustee of Third Age Employment Network.  She worked with the Office of the Prime Minister and Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on the Government Ageing Strategy, and with the Department of Children, Schools and Families, developing their Horizons Programme, and the UK Government Office of Science Advisory Boards for the Demography Review. Sarah serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Natural England and the Advisory Board, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) 

Internationally, Sarah represents the UK on the European Science Academies’ Demographic Change in Europe Panel, serves on the Council of Advisors of Population Europe and on the Advisory Board of the World Demographic Association. Sarah is an International Advisor on the University of Tokyo Global Leadership Initiative and represents Oxford on the Ageing and Demography Collaboration of the  International Association of Research Universities. 

Sarah served as Advisor to the Malaysian Government, Advisor to the Singapore Government’s Third Age Council and as a Specialist Advisor for the European Commission Demographic Change Programme. She served as an International Advisor to the Swedish Academy, European Advisor to the MacArthur Foundation, Advisor on Ageing Issues to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and was Global Advisor on Ageing Issues for HSBC plc. She served on the Royal Society’s Working Group on Population, the Wellcome Trust Health Consequences of Population Change Panel and on the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Ageing Societies.

Alongside keynotes at academic conferences, Sarah has spoken at World Economic Forums in China and Australia, presented various TED and TED linked talks.  Sarah was invited to give the 2012 Oxford-London Lecture on the subject of population change.

Location

Program

The workshop begins on Wednesday December 14, 2016 and will continue through Thursday evening, December 15, 2016. 

Please note that each talk is allocated 40 minutes (35 min presentation + 5 min discussion).

Also, do note that the talk is paperless. Please bring along a laptop/ ipad for this workshop

14 December (Day 1 of 2)

15 December (Day 2 of 2)

Logistics Information

Accommodation

The accommodation provided by the workshop is the Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, which is strategically located at the heart of the city centre at Bras Basah Road. The hotel is also located directly across the road from the SMU School of Economics, where the workshop is held.

Location:

9 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189559

Hotel: +65 6336 0220 

Contact Details

Local Organizing Committee:

School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903

Contact Person:

Ms Juniper Ng
Assistant Manager, Office of the Dean, School of Economics
School Website, Events and External Affairs
Email: juniperng@smu.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6828 0855 Fax: (65) 6828 0833

Maps/ Directions

Directions from Airport to Hotel Rendezvous

• Directions to and from the Changi International Airport
• 24 Hr One-way Airport Transfer Service from Changi Airport to Hotel Rendevous (Please present Hotel Reservation Confirmation at Ground Transport Desk)

Hotel Rendezvous to SMU School of Economics

• Directions to SMU School of Economics

School of Economics to Grand Hyatt Hotel (The Straits Kitchen)

• Directions by MRT (Train Service), Taxi and Bus

Useful Links

Food Options

Some restaurants options in the vicinity are:

1. Szechuan Kitchen, Fairmont, Singapore
2. True Blue, 47/49 Armenian Street, 179937
3. Gajalee, 8 Raffles Avenue, #02-12, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore, 039802
4. Jumbo Seafood, 30 Merchant Road, #01-01/02, Riverside Point, Riverside Point, 058282
5. In addition, there are many more dining options at Chijmes, 30 Victoria Street, 187996

Places of Interest

1. Gardens by The Bay, featuring Christmas Wonderland 2016, a festive Christmas Market
2. Marina Bay Sands
3. Orchard Road Shopping District
4. National Gallery Singapore
5. National Museum of Singapore
6. Night Safari Singapore
7. Chinatown Singapore
8. Clarke Quay

About

The 11th World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) has the objective to bring together econometricians, statisticians, economists, regional scientists and geographers to present and discuss their recent achievements in spatial econometric theories and applications, in connection with the analysis of externalities, spillovers, interactions, peer effects, network effects, etc.
 
The conference is organized by the School of Economics, Singapore Management University (SMU), and will take place from June 13-15, 2017 for full three days, on SMU campus.
 
Important highlights of the conference are:

• Keynote speakers: Peter Robinson (LSE), Jushan Bai (Columbia University), and Lung-Fei Lee (Ohio State University)
• Invited Speakers: Anil Bera (UIUC), Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University), Ingmar Prucha (U. Maryland), Giuseppe Abia (Catholic U. of Rome), J. PauElhorst (U. Groningen), Jesus Mur (U. of Zaragoza).
• Young researcher paper competition sponsored by the Spatial Econometrics Association.
• A two-day short course on spatial econometrics and applications following the conference (June 16-17), by Giuseppe Arbia, Anil Bera, Badi Baltagi, and Ingmar Prucha
• Publishing opportunity in a special issue of the Regional Science and Urban Economics

Download the conference brochure here!

For any enquiry, send an email to sea2017@smu.edu.sg

Photos

*Click here for SEA 2017 Pictures* (Updated 30 June, 2017)

About

The workshop provides a platform for knowledge exchange among theorists working in various fields. We invite all speakers to present, instead of a particular paper, a summary of a series of their works on topics of their expertise, a review of the related literature, and a discussion on open questions.

Organising Committee

• Shurojit CHATTERJI|
  Singapore Management University
• Atsushi KAJII
  Kyoto University
  Visiting Professor, Singapore Management University
• Takashi KUNIMOTO
  Singapore Management University
• Jingyi XUE
  ​​​​​​​Singapore Management University

Programme

Day 1: 21 March 2019 (Thursday)

Venue: SOE Seminar Room 5.1

Day 2: 22 March 2019 (Friday)

Venue: SOE Meeting Room 5.1

About

School of Economics at Singapore Management University, together with the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, the National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) at Queensland University of Technology, and Antai School of Management at Shanghai Jiaotong University, will hold a 2-day conference titled "Frontiers in Econometrics" at SMU, Singapore, on Friday and Saturday, 23 - 24 August 2019.

The conference aims to bring econometricians from these four universities and beyond to exchange ideas in econometrics and share their most recent research findings.

Conference Venue:

Singapore Management University
School of Economics & Social Sciences
Seminar Room 5.1, Level 5
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903

Registration

Registration for the conference has closed.

Programme

Getting Here

Venue

Singapore Management University
School of Economics, Level 5
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903
Seminar Room 5.1

Please enter by the visitor's gate at the entrance, and let the security guard know that you are attending this conference.

Contact

Ms. CHEONG Pei Qi
Senior Executive
Office of Dean / School of Economics​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​Singapore Management University
Email: pqcheong@smu.edu.sg
DID: +65 6828 0855

Photos

Click here to view pictures from the conference.

About

The NUS-SMU Development Economics Workshop will take place in-person and virtually on the 27th and 28th of April 2021. The in-person venue on the 27th of April is at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) National University of Singapore (NUS) and the venue on the 28th of April is at the School of Economics (SOE) Singapore Management University (SMU). The workshop is organized by the LKYSPP-NUS and SOE-SMU and has the objective to provide a platform for knowledge exchange and discussions among applied micro economists working in the area of development.

Kindly note that in-person seats are subject to venue capacity limits and will be extended by invitation only. Other participants may still join us virtually via Zoom. To receive the Zoom details, please register and a confirmation email with the Zoom details will be sent to the registered email by 26 April 2021.

Programme

Click here for the detailed programme. (Updated 1 April)

Registration

Click here to register.  (Closed)

About

Senior Speakers:

• Professor Francesco Caselli
  Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Russell Cooper
  Professor of Economics, European University Institute
• Professor Wouter Den Haan
  ​​​​​​​Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Junior Speakers:

• Assistant Professor Ismail Baydur
  Assistant Professor of Economics, Singapore Management University
• Professor Angus Chu
  Chair in Macroeconomics, University of Liverpool
• Assistant Professor Juliana Yu Sun
  Assistant Professor of Economics, Singapore Management University
• Assistant Professor Jianhuan Xu
  Assistant Professor of Economics, Singapore Management University
• Assistant Professor Emircan Yurdagul
  Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Assistant Professor Shengxing Zhang
  ​​​​​​​Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Programme

Click here for the detailed workshop programme. (Updated 30 April)