Leo van Wissen
Leo van Wissen is a researcher and former Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and based in The Hague. He is Professor Emeritus of Economic Demography at the University of Groningen. Trained in human geography at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, his research areas include demographic modeling and projection, migration, regional population change, and ageing. He is currently coordinating the Horizon Europe project PREMIUM_EU, which examines how migration can contribute to the development of Europe’s most disadvantaged regions. He is a member of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD). He is also a member of Academia Europaea, as well as an honorary member and former president of the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD).
