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MEDIA CENTER Paul Demeny Wins Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award For Excellence in Writing and Editing in the Population Sciences NEW YORK (18 April 2003) — Paul Demeny has been named winner of the 2003 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences. The award will be presented at a reception at the Population Council in New York on 28 May. Created by her colleagues, friends, and family, the award commemorates Dr. Nordberg, who played a leading role in information dissemination on international population issues over three decades as editor, writer, and director of publications. Given every two years, the award recognizes one of the following achievements: writing on population that combines exceptional scholarship with appeal to a broad readership; or a record of editing technical material on population to make it accessible to varied audiences. Paul Demeny has had a long association with the Population Council, New York, where he is currently Distinguished Scholar. A graduate of the University of Economics, Budapest, Demeny received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and has held academic appointments at Princeton, Michigan, and Hawaii. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a past president of the Population Association of America. He has made important contributions both to technical demography (particularly through his work with the late Ansley J. Coale on demographic modeling and estimation) and to the broader areas of population and development and the demographic aspects of public policy. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey McNicoll, of the Encyclopedia of Population (Macmillan, 2003). Most notably, in terms of the award, Paul Demeny is founder and Editor of Population and Development Review. As the intellectual force behind that journal for nearly three decades, Demeny has influenced the shape and content of population research, promoted a productive interchange with other disciplines, and raised the level and cogency of debate on population policy. The Nordberg Award recognizes and honors these accomplishments.
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