Nominee Biosketch

 Hossein MAHMOUDIAN

Given name:                            Hossein
Surname:                                 MAHMOUDIAN

Country of nationality:            Iran
Country of residence:              Iran

Mailing address:                      Department of Demography,
                                                 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
                                                 Al-e-Ahmad Ave., Tehran 1411713118, Iran
                                                 PO BOX: 14395/773
Email address:                         This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Telephone (Home):                98-21-88270355
Telephone (Office):                98-21-61117870

Highest degree:                            PhD
Year:                                            1998
Institution:                                   Australian National University
Discipline:                                    Demography

Current employment/position:    Associate Professor, Dept. of Demography, University of Tehran

Previous employment: -

Other honorary or professional positions:
1. Head, Dept. of Demography, University of Tehran (2006-2011 and since May 2015- )
2. Vice president, Population Association of Iran (2008-2014)
3. National Program Director, UNFPA project on population and development (since 2006)

Publication:

1. Mahmoudian, Hossein and Gordon Carmichael (1998). "An analysis of Muslim fertility in Australia using the own-children method", Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 18(2): 251-269.

2. Mahmoudian, Hossein (2000). "Migration and fertility: theoretical background and empirical results", Name-e-Oloum Ejtemaea (in Persian), No. 15:147-64.

3. Abbasi-Shavazi M. J., D. Glazebrook, G. Jashidiha, H. Mahmoudian and R. Sadeghi (2005). Return to Afghanistan? A study of Afghans living in Tehran, Mashad and Zahedan, Afghanistan Evaluation and Research Unit (www.aeru.org.af).

4. Mahmoudian, Hossein (2006). "Socio-demographic factors affecting women's labor participation in Iran, 1976-96", Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 15 (3): 233-248.

5. Abbasi-Shavazi, M. J., Rasoul Sadeghi, Hossein Mahmoudian, and Gholamreza Jamshidiha (2012). "Marriage and family formation of the second-generation Afghans in Iran: insights from a qualitative study", International Migration Review, 46(4):493-508.

6. Mahmoudian, Hossein and Ali Ghasemi Ardehaee (2013). Internal Migration and Urbanization in Iran, Tehran: UNFPA.

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