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Cassio M Turra

Cassio Turra is an economist from the University of Minas Gerais. He holds a master's degree in demography from Cedeplar, UFMG, and a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania (2004). He was a research associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University (2004-2006). He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Demography, Cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was Director of Cedeplar, UFMG (2014-2016), President of the Brazilian Association of Population Studies (2012-2014; 2014-2016), and member of several councils and committees, belongs to the International Researchers Network of National Transfer Accounts. His research agenda and publications cover topics such as Economic Demography, Generational Economics, Biological Markers of Aging, Socioeconomic Differentials in Health and Mortality, among others.

Eduardo Rios-Neto holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of California at Berkeley and carried out postdoctoral research in demography at the University of Texas, Austin. Rios-Neto is a visiting professor in the applied economics graduate programme at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. From April 2021 to December 2022, he served as the President of the Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), and from May 2019 to March 2021 he was the Director of surveys at IBGE. He served as a full professor of demography at CEDEPLAR-UFMG from 1980 to 2015. From 2004–2011 he was President of the National Committee on Population and Development, and from 1999–2002 he was President of the Brazilian Population Association. From 1996–2000, he served as graduate training Director in demography at CEDEPLAR.

Bernardo Queiroz

Bernardo L. Queiroz holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley (2005). He is a Professor at the Department of Demography and a researcher at CEDEPLAR at the University Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), since 2006. Since 2021, he also is a member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Covid -19 Mortality Assessment, which acts as an advisory body to WHO and UN DESA in this area of work.

Simone Wajnman is an economist and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in demography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In 2001, she was a visiting fellow at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is Full Professor of Demography at Cedeplar, Brazil. Her research encompasses many aspects of economic and family demography.

Since 2018, Jordana de Jesus has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Demography and Actuarial Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. She holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in demography from the Center for Regional Planning and Development (Cedeplar) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at UFMG. She carried out doctoral research with the support of Celade, using methodology from the NTA project on the subject of intergenerational transfers of unpaid domestic work time. Between 2015 and 2016 she was a substitute lecturer in the Demography Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is currently vice-coordinator of the Actuarial Sciences course at UFRN. She is a member of the Family and Gender Economics Study Group - GeFam and coordinator of the Population and Gender Working Group of the Brazilian Association of Population Studies.