I am Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. After working for the Population Council in New York, then in Thailand and Indonesia, I was with the Demography and Sociology Program at the Australian National University for 28 years, serving as head of program for an eight-year period. This was followed by an 11-year period with the National University of Singapore. I retired in December 2014 as Director of NUS’s JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre. I have conducted research on varied subjects in the field of demography and human resource development, in recent years focusing especially on low fertility regimes in Asia, delayed and non-marriage, urbanization issues, and equity aspects of educational development. I was founding editor of the journal - Asian Population Studies. Since retiring from NUS, I have undertaken a number of consultancies for the UNFPA in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Indonesia and Cambodia, and for the Asian Development Bank on urbanization in Cambodia. I also prepared a study for the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of UNFPA on “Sustainable development and demographic trends in the Asia Pacific region”.