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Results of the fourth APA council election

Dear APA members,

I am very pleased to announce the results of the fourth APA online election that took place during 1 October to 15 November 2015. As you are informed by earlier emails, there were 17 candidates for 9 positions in the APA council. Of 264 eligible members, 139 (equivalent to 52.65% ) registered their votes in our online election system. Following is the list of elected candidates for different positions of the fourth APA council for the three-year period, 2016-2018:

President

Doo-Sub Kim

 

Doo-Sub Kim

Korea

Immediate Past President

Terence Hull

Terence Hull

Australia

Vice President

Baochang Gu

Baochang Gu

China

Secretary General

Paul Yip

Paul Yip

Hong Kong

Treasurer

Bhassorn Limanonda

 Bhassorn Limanonda

Thailand

Council members

(In alphabetical order)

 

  

 

 

 

 

Santhya KG

santhya passport pic

India

Sureeporn Punpuing

 Sureeporn Punpuing2

Thailand

Wendy Hartanto

 Wendy Hartano

Indonesia

Yasuhiko Saito

Yasuhiko Saito

Japan

Youngtae Cho

Young Tae Cho2

Korea

 

 

Thanks once again for your continuing support and taking part in this important activity.

 

Best Wishes,

Aphichat Chamratrithirong

The Returning Officer for the Fourth APA Election

Doo-Sub Kim

 

Doo-Sub Kim
Given name:                    Doo-Sub
Surname:                        Kim

Country of nationality:   Rep. of Korea
Country of residence:     Rep. of Korea

Mailing address:            Department of Sociology, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791 South Korea
Email address:               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Telephone (Home)         +82-2-446-7029

Telephone (Office)         +82-2-2220-0846

 

Highest degree:                             Ph.D.
Year:                                              1984
Institution:                                     Brown University
Discipline:                                      Sociology (Social Demography)

Current employment/position      Professor, Department of Sociology, Hanyang University

Previous employment
1. Research Fellow, The East-West Population Institute, East-West Center, U.S.A., 1983-1984.
2. Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1989-1990.
3. President, Korea Social Science Data Archive, 2010-2011.

Other honorary or professional positions
1. President, The Population Association of Korea (2007-2008).
2. Chair, Scientific Panel on the Process and Dynamics of Cross-Border Marriage, IUSSP (2010-2012).
3. Vice-President, The Asian Population Association (2013-2015).

Publication

1. INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE OF KOREANS AND ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN SPOUSES, Seoul: Jipmoondang, 2015, 408 pp.

2. CROSS-BORDER MARRIAGE: GLOBAL TRENDS AND DIVERSITY (Editor), Seoul: The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), 2012, 520 pp.

3. "Missing Girls in South Korea: Trends, Levels and Regional Variations," Population (English edition) 59(6), Paris: INED, 2004, pp. 865-878.

4. "The 1997 Economic Crisis and Changes in the Pattern of Achieved Fertility and Ideal Number of Children in Korea," in Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Mui Teng Yap (eds.), ECONOMIC STRESS, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FAMILIES IN ASIA: RESEARCH AND POLICY CHALLENGES, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2013, pp. 73-89.

5. "The 1997 Asian Economic Crisis and Changes in the Pattern of Socioeconomic Differentials in Korean Fertility," in G. Jones, P. T. Straughan & A. Chan (eds.), ULTRA-LOW FERTILITY IN PACIFIC ASIA: TRENDS, CAUSES AND POLICY ISSUES, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, 2009, pp. 110-131.

6. "Does Religion Matter? A Study of Regional Variations in Sex Ratio at Birth in Korea" (Co-authored with Yoo-Jean Song) in I. Attané & C. Z. Guilmoto (eds.), WATERING THE NEIGHBOUR'S GARDEN: THE GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC FEMALE DEFICIT IN ASIA, Paris: CICRED, 2007, pp. 183-203.

                

 Baochang GU

 

Baochang Gu
Given name:                         Baochang
Surname:                              Gu

Country of nationality:         China
Country of residence:          China

Mailing address:                  Center for Population and Development Studies, Renmin
                                             University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian
                                             District, Beijing 100872, China
Email address:                    
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Telephone (Home):              86-10-8280-1399
Telephone (Office):             86-13910056983

Highest degree:                                 Ph.D.
Year:                                                 1986
Institution:                                         University of Texas at Austin
Discipline:                                          Demography and Sociology

Current employment/position:         Professor of Demography

Previous employment:
1. Deputy Executive Director and Director for International Cooperation, China Family Planning Association
2. Senior Associate, the Population Council, New York
3. Associate Director and Senior Research Associate, China Population Information and Research Center

Other honorary or professional positions:
1. Member of the special panel for social science and operations research on sexual and reproductive health, WHO , Geneva (2001-2010)
2. Member of Editorial Advisory Committee, Journal of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, New York
3. Member of the international advisory board, Asian Population Studies, National University of Singapore

Publication:
1. "Internal Migration Dominates Population Dynamics in China." Asian Population Studies. 10:1, 1-3. February 2014.

2. "Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China's One-Child Policy?" (with Wang Feng and Yong Cai). Population and Development Review. 2012, 38 (Supplement): 115-129.

3. "Fertility prospects in China," (with Yong Cai). 2011. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Expert Paper No. 2011/14. http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/expertpapers/2011-14_Gu&Cai_Expert-paper.pdf.

4. "The arrival of low fertility in China." In Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia, edited by Gavin Jones, Paulin Tay Straughan, and Angelique Chan, 2009:73-94. UK: Routledge.

5. "China's Local and National Fertility Policy at the End of the Twentieth Century." (with Wang Feng, Guo Zhigang, and Zhang Erli). Population and Development Review. 2007, 33 (1): 129-147.

6. "Sex Ratio at Birth in China with Reference to Other Areas in East Asia: What We Know," (with Krishna Roy). Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 (September, 1995): 17-42.

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 Bhassorn LIMANONDA

Bhassorn Limanonda

 

Given Name:                             Bhassorn
Surname:                                  Limanonda

Country of nationality:             Thailand
Country of residence:              Thailand

Mailing address:                       525/223 Pornswang Nivate, Samrong Nua,
                                                  Muang District, Samutprakarn 10270, Thailand
Email address:                          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Telephone (Home):                 66-02-394-3871
Telephone (Mobile):                086-886-7015

 

Highest degree:                             Ph.D.
Year:                                             1981
Institution:                                    Brown University, USA.
Discipline:                                     Sociology-Demography-Anthropology

Current employment/position:      Retired Professor

Previous employment:
1. Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok , Thailand
2. Dean, College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
3. Director, Institute of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Other honorary or professional positions:
1. Distinguished Senior Research Scholar, The Thailand Research Fund 2009
2. A member of Establishment Committee (EC) of Asian Population Association (APA) 2007
3. First APA Council Member (APA Executive Secretary) 2009-2010

Publication:

1. "Motivation and Process of Marriage Migration: A Case Study of Thailand" in Population and Society. Vol.3 No.2. Seoul: Institute of Population and Ageing Research, HYU. 2007 pp.79-118

2. (with Pornpun Prajaknate), Situation Review of STI/HIV Prevention and Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Sex Work Setting in Thailand" UNFPA report, Thailand. December 2007 (99 pages)

3. Limanonda et al. The Study of the effects of migration and environment: Bangkok Metropolitan Area and Had Yai Municipality" in Sustainable urbanization and Human and Human Security in Asia. Population Research series No. 304. March 2002. Tokyo National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Pp. 3-217.

4. "Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand," a chapter in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds.) Women in Asia, Tradition, Modernity and Globalization. Women in Asia Publication series. Australia: Allen and Unwin. 2000, pp.247-261

5. "Women in Development in Thailand" in Gender Dimension of Population and Development in South East Asia. Asian Population Studies Series. No. 150 New York: United Nations, 1999 pp. 114-134

 Yasuhiko SAITO

 

Yasuhiko Saito

Given name:                            Yasuhiko
Surname:                                 SAITO

Country of nationality:            Japan
Country of residence:             Japan

Mailing address:                      12-5 Goban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Telephone (Home):                -
Telephone (Office):               +81 3 5275 9603

 

 

Highest degree:                           Ph.D.
Year:                                            1993
Institution:                                  
University of Southern California
Discipline:                                    
Sociology

Current employment/position:   Nihon University / Professor

Previous employment:
1. University of Southern California

Other honorary or professional positions:
1. IUSSP Council Member 2006-2009
2. ISSC Executive Committee Member 2010-

Publication:

1. "The methods and materials of health expectancy," Yasuhiko Saito, Jean-Marie Robine and Eileen M. Crimmins, Statistical Journal of the IAOS 30: 209–223, DOI 10.3233/SJI-140840, 2014.

2. "Inequality in disability in Bangladesh," Md. Ismail Tareque, Sharifa Begum and Yasuhiko Saito, PLoS ONE, 9(7), e103681, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103681, 2014.

3. "Are there education differentials in disability and mortality transitions and active life expectancy among Japanese older adults? Findings from a 10-year prospective cohort study," Vanessa Yong and Yasuhiko Saito, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 67B(3): pp. 343-353, 2012.

4. "Survival beyond age 100: Acceleration of the evolutions in Japan," Jean-Marie Robine and Yasuhiko Saito, Population and Development Review, Vol. 29 (suppl.), 2003.

5. "Trends in Disability-free Life Expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: Gender, Racial, and Socioeconomic Differences," Eileen M. Crimmins and Yasuhiko Saito, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 52, Issue 11, June 2001, pp. 1629-1641.

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