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Population Association of Singapore
2025 Annual Meeting
Jointly hosted with Nanyang Technological University
More info available soon!
PAS Early Career Award 2024
Call for Nominations
The Population Association of Singapore (PAS) invites nominations for the Early Career Award. This Early Career Award recognizes and honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to Population Studies in Asia, particularly to Singapore population, within 10 years of completing their doctoral degree.
The award includes a plaque and S$1,000. The winner will be honored during the PAS 2024 Annual Meeting. The selected awardee is kindly required to attend the conference to receive the award.
Nomination Deadline: APRIL 15, 2024
Population Association of Singapore
2024 Annual Meeting
SUSTAINABLE POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN A NEW ERA
Jointly hosted by Centre for Family and Population Research & Population Association of Singapore
16 - 17 May 2024
Guest-of-Honour
Minister Indranee Rajah
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
Second Minister for Finance
Second Minister for National Development
Ms. Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Finance since 2018, as well as Second Minister for National Development and Leader of the House since 2020. In the Prime Minister's Office, Ms Rajah oversees the National Population and Talent Division and assists Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean on population matters.
Ms Rajah has been the Member of Parliament for the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2001. She was in practice as a lawyer and Senior Counsel before joining the Government.
Keynote Speakers
Can Investments in Human Capital Compensate for Low Fertility? The Power of Multi-Dimensional Demography
Deputy Director General for Science at International Institute for Applied System Analysis
Professor Wolfgang Lutz
Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
Wolfgang Lutz is the Interim Deputy Director General for Science for International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). In additional to the various roles he has filled at IIASA over the years, Lutz is the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a cooperation between IIASA, the University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Lutz is a leading academic in the field of population and sustainable development and was one of the scientists appointed by the UN to write the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 ‘The Future is Now’. He has won numerous prestigious awards including the Wittgenstein Prize, two European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants, the Mattei Dogan award of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and most recently, the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy Leopoldina, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. He serves as special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission Dubravka Suica.
He has published over 293 scientific articles and chapters in refereed books, including 24 in Science, Nature, and PNAS, wrote or edited 27 books and special issues, on international population trends with a special focus on population forecasting, population-development-environment interactions, and on introducing education. He holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Asia and the Pacific At A Crossroads – Challenges and Opportunities of Demographic Change for Inclusive and Sustainable Societies
Chief, Sustainable Demographic Transition Section, Social Development Division, UNESCAP
Dr Sabine Henning
Sabine Henning is the Chief for the Sustainable Demographic Transition Section, Social Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand. She currently leads work on population and development issues, focusing on research, capacity-building and intergovernmental support on population dynamics, ageing, migration, and youth.
From 2015-2018, Ms. Henning was Senior Population Affairs Officer and Chief, Office of the Director, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), United Nations, New York, advising the Director, overseeing personnel and programme management, and serving as focal point for the annual sessions of the Commission on Population and Development.
From 2000 to 2015, she served successively in the Population Division’s Population Estimates and Projections Section, the Population and Development Section, the Migration Section, and the Population Policy Section. She has been involved in UN interagency work and coordination for over 15 years. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, she was principal author of UNDESA’s two-volume Compendium of Recommendations on Population and Development and contributed to three revisions each of UNDESA’s flagship publications World Population Prospects and World Urbanization Prospects, also to the biennial migrant stock estimates, reports of the Secretary-General on population and development and migration and development and other UN reports. She frequently represented the UN Secretariat at international conferences and serviced numerous intergovernmental meetings and high-level events at UN Headquarters dealing with population, migration, and development issues.
Ms. Henning has a Ph.D. in Geography with a doctoral-level certificate in Demography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a graduate-level certificate in Strategic Management from Harvard University.
PAS Best Student Paper Award 2024
The Population Association of Singapore (PAS) is accepting nominations for the best student paper in the field of population studies.
Papers may address any topic under the broad ambit of population studies, including (but not limited to): union formation and dissolution; mortality, morbidity and health; population aging; children and youth; family complexity and diversity; kinship and intergenerational relations, and more.
The winner of this award will receive a $250 cash prize, which will be presented at the PAS 2024 Annual Meeting.
*Student papers already submitted for PAS Annual Meeting 2024 are also welcomed, if they meet eligibility requirements.
Nomination Deadline: FEBRUARY 23, 2024
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Events Highlights
PAS Inaugural 2023 Annual Meeting
Building Singapore's Population Towards a Better Future
11 - 12 May 2023 | National University of Singapore
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PAS 2023 Annual Meeting
11-12 May 2023
We hosted our inaugural Annual Meeting on , with Minister Indranee Rajah, as the Guest-of-Honour. Distinguished guests Dr Reiko Hayashi, President of the Asian Population Association, and Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, were our keynote speakers for the special event.
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PAS Inaugural Public Lecture
Population Challenges & Policy Solutions in Singapore: View of Experts
14 December 2022
Our three distinguished speakers, Dr Mary Ann Tsao, Dr Leong Chan Hoong and Dr Tan Poh Lin, shared their views on population challenges and policy options for Singapore.
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Singapore’s Population in 2022 - Unpacked
12 October 2022
We had Dr Abhijit Visaria, Prof Jean Yeung, A/P Walter Edgar Theseira, and Mr. Christopher Gee, unpack demographic trends of ageing, marriage and fertility and immigration in Singapore.
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PAS Online Seminar by Dr Fengqing Chao
18 August 2022
Dr Chao shared about Estimating and Projecting Prenatal Sex Discrimination Around the World and on Subnational Level in Asia
