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Aswini Kumar Nanda is Professor at the Population Research Centre funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh, a National Status Social Science Research Institute with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, India. He has extensive experience working in the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab on health, population and migration issues. His work focuses on demographic change in the context of development. His recent publications include Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations: Punjabis in a Transnational World (2015), with S. Irudaya Rajan and V. J. Varghese. He is currently Joint Secretary of the Indian Association for Population Studies (IASP). He is also a member of the International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and Asian Population Association (APA).

Jacques Véron is a demographer and emeritus senior researcher at INED (French Institute for Demographic Studies). He has been Deputy Director of this institute and a member of the French delegation to the United Nations Population and Development Commission for more than 10 years. His research focuses on the relationship between population, environment and development. He is also working on Indian population dynamics. He co-edited Ages, Generations and the Social Contract. The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State (2007) and Dictionary of Demography and Population Sciences (2011). He also published a book on the relationships between demography and ecology in 2013 and is now preparing an introduction to the population and environment debate. He is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and also of the Population Association of America (PAA).