Geoffrey McNicoll, senior associate in the Population Council's Distinguished Colleagues unit, is co-editor of Population and Development Review. His main research interests are the comparative analysis of demographic regimes, economic and political demography, and population policy. Current research is on government roles in demographic change in strong and weak states.

McNicoll has a B.Sc. from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a research associate at the East-West Population Institute, Honolulu, and subsequently held various posts in the Population Council's Center for Policy Studies. From 1988 to 2000 he was a professor in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1994 combining this post with his position at the Council. He has also worked in the Central Bureau of Statistics, Jakarta, and at the National Planning Association, Washington, DC.