Biography and publications | Henri Leridon - Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society

Biography

Born in Algiers on July 15, 1942.

École polytechnique, Paris (1964, class of 62) ;
Joined INED (October 1965) ;
Expert demographer, Institut de démographie de Paris (1966) ;
Diplôme d'études supérieures en sciences économiques, University of Caen (1967) ;
PhD in economics, University of Paris-I (1972) ;
Visiting lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, (September 1974-June 1975) ;
Head of the Sociodemography Department at INED (1979-1992) ;
Head of research units at INED (1976-1979 and 1996-2001) ;
Director of the joint INSERM-Ined-Paris-XI unit (U569) "Epidemiology, demography and social sciences: reproductive health, sexuality and HIV infection" (2001-2006) ;
Director of GIS-Elfe (Enquête longitudinale française depuis l'enfance) (since March 2006) ;
Director of Emeritus Research at INED (since December 2007) ;
Associate Professor at the Collège de France (2008-2009).

Editor-in-Chief of "Collections de l'INED" (1989-1996) ;
Editor-in-Chief, Population magazine (1996-2002) ;
Member of theEditorial Board, International Studies in Demography, Oxford University Press (1990-2003) ;
Member of theEditorial Advisory Committee, Family Planning Perspectives (1990-2000) ;
Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Population (Elsevier).

Rapporteur général des groupes " Prospectives de la famille " (Commissariat au Plan) (1974-1975 and 1980-1981) ;
Member of the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (1977-1985) ;
Chairman, Commission de l'étude comparée de la fécondité (1977-1981) ;
Member of the INED Scientific Council (1987-1995) ;
Member of the Scientific Council of the Comité français d'éducation pour la santé (1995-1999) ;
Chairman of INSERM Intercommission n° 5 "Évolutions démographiques et santé humaine" (1995-1999) ;
Member of the Conseil supérieur d'hygiène publique de France (1997-2002) ;
Chairman of the "Research on Aging" scientific committee (2000-2001) ;
Member of the GIS Longévité Steering Committee (since 2002) ;
Member of Inserm's ATC vieillissement (since 2002) ;
Head of Inserm's Cohortes Group (2003-2005).

Prix du Statisticien d'expression française des Sociétés de Statistique de Paris et de France (1989) ;
Corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Paris (since 1994) ;
2004 Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (awarded in Boston on March 31, 2004).

Démographie, climat et alimentation mondiale

Leridon H. et De Marsally G., « Démographie, climat et alimentation mondiale », Académie des sciences, Rapport sur la science et la technologie, n° 32. Paris, EDP sciences, 2011.