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October 2002 Council Staff and Fellows Win Key Spots in IUSSP Vote The ballots were counted—and many Population Council staff and fellows were elected. Of the new officers and 13 members voted to the governing council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), two members are Population Council staffers and five others previously received fellowships or awards from the Population Council. John Casterline (PC/New York) and Zeba Sathar (PC/Islamabad, Pakistan) will each serve a three-year term on the governing board of this Paris-based organization. With approximately 2,000 members from 125 countries, the 74-year-old group is one of the most widely known and prestigious institutions in the field of population. The new IUSSP vice president and president-elect, Hania Zlotnik, currently the chief of population estimates and projections at the Population Division of the United Nations, received a two-year Population Council fellowship in 1975 to pursue a doctorate at Princeton University. The IUSSP’s roster of elected officials also includes Alaka Basu of Cornell University’s Division of Nutritional Sciences and a member of the Population Council’s board of trustees, Alan Simmons of Canada’s York University, and Zeng Yi of Duke University’s Center for Demographic Studies, all of whom are former fellows of the Population Council. Additionally, in 1974 IUSSP council member James Trussell of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs received the Council’s Ritchie H. Reed Fellowship, an award given to promising scholars whose research combines demography and another of the social sciences. John Casterline, senior associate in the Policy Research Division of the Council, has served on the Committee on Population of the U.S. National Research Council and on the Social Sciences and Population Study Section of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Zeba Sathar, the country director for the Council in Pakistan, received the Council’s Bernard Berelson Fellowship in 1992–1993 for midcareer training. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
