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Jennifer D. Sciubba, Ph.D., (pronounced SHOO-bah) is one of the foremost experts in the field of political demography. Her work argues that a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality and migration trends points us toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow, the central theme of her latest book, “8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World” (W.W. Norton, 2022). In general, she works to educate the broader public about the importance of population trends by translating research for readers of The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and on the TED stage, among other places, in addition to publishing policy-relevant research in numerous scholarly articles and edited books.
Dr. Sciubba is the President & CEO of the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC. She is affiliated with the Wilson Center and with the Hess Center for New Frontiers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is formerly a tenured professor at Rhodes College. Dr. Sciubba has studied at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and served as a demographics consultant to the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy). Dr. Sciubba is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Maryland and her B.A. from Agnes Scott College.
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