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April 20: MMC Presents Talk "Population and the United Nations"

April 20, 2010
Date: April 20
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: The Commons, West
Contact: Michael Backus at mbackus@mmm.edu

The international studies department and the Division of Social Sciences host “Population and the United Nations,” a talk by UN Population Director Hania Zlotnik.

Zlotnik was appointed Director of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, in February 2005 after working in the Population Division for 23 years. She is the tenth person to serve as Director of the Population Division and the first woman to do so.

During her long career at the Division, Ms. Zlotnik has worked in all the major areas of population research. In particular, she was Chief of the Mortality and Migration Section of the Division from 1993 to 1999 and she directed the Population Estimates and Projections Section from 1999 to 2003. She also served as Assistant Director from 2003 to 2005, overseeing work on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Before joining the Population Division, Ms. Zlotnik worked as Research Associate for the Committee on Population and Demography of the U.S. National Research Council. A Mexican citizen, Ms. Zlotnik studied mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and Demography from Princeton University.