BERLIN DEMOGRAPHY DAYS

BERLIN DEMOGRAPHY DAYS | 23 - 25 JANUARY 2024

TWO WEEKS TO GO
Start the year off right by attending Berlin Demography Days 2024! This year’s theme is:

Overcoming Crises. Shaping Policy for an Uncertain Future.

From January 23-25, Berlin Demography Days will host 13 public panel discussions with eminent experts and decision-makers from politics, business, science and civil society.

They will exchange visions for future crisis resilience. Panel discussions will look at best practice responses to shocks caused e.g. by violent conflicts, climate change and pandemics, and to population trends.

Join us! Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Please register here:

https://survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php/972861?lang=en

All panels will be online, except for the opening event, which you can also attend in-person on January 23 (18-21 CET) at the Futurium Museum in Berlin. The evening will include the presentation of the European Demographer Awards 2023.

View the Berlin Demography Days 2024 programme here:

https://population-europe.eu/events/berlin-demography-days-berliner-demografie-tage/berlin-demography-days-2024-overcoming

Follow Berlin Demography Days 2024 on Linkedin and X through #DemographyDays2024 and #OvercomingCrises for updates and more information.

For any questions about the event, please contact: events@population-europe.eu

We look forward to you joining us!

Andreas Edel Executive Secretary, Population Europe / Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Ulrich Lilie President of Diakonie Germany 2014-2023

Berlin Demography Days 2024 Speakers List

23 January | Day 1 | Understanding Crisis Management

Bruno Arpino, Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy
Bеrando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament
Eugen Brysch, Chair of the German Foundation for Patient Rights (Deutsche Stiftung Patientenschutz)
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Director of the Institue of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics
Fernand de Varennes, Former UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues (2017-2023)
Antje Draheim, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Health
Pearl Dykstra, Professor Emerita of Empirical Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, member Chief Scientific Advisors group to the European Commission
Andreas Edel, Executive Secretary, Population Europe
Julia Fitzner, Unit Head, Insights and Analytics, the World Health Organization (WHO)
Hermann Gröhe, Member of Parliament, German Minister of Health 2013-2018
Yasmine Hamdar, AI Specialist, UNDP
Lorence Kabasele Birungi, President of the African Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development, Eastern and Southern region (AfriYAN)
Hill Kulu, Professor of Human Geography and Demography, University of St Andrews, UK, President of the European Association for Population Studies
Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London, UK
Alice M. Reid, Professor of Demography & Co-Director of Campop, University of Cambridge, UK
Jürgen Renn, Founding Director, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthroplogy, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Magdalena Rogl, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft Germany
Georg Schütte, General Secretary, Volkswagen Foundation
Juliane Seifert, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Dubravka Šuica, the European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography
Rita Süssmuth, former German Minister of Health and President of the German Bundestag (1985-1998)
Manuela Verduci, Managing Director of Kiron Digital Learning Solutions
Ingmar Weber, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence at Saarland University, Germany
Sigrid Weigel, former Director of the Leibniz-Centre for Literature and Cultural Research (ZfL), Germany

24 January | Day 2 | Global Crisis – Local Responses

Mumuni Abu, Demographer and Senior Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies of the University of Ghana
Andreas Backhaus, Researcher, Ageing, Mortality and Population Dynamics, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany
Kai Bergmann, Senior Advisor on German Low-Carbon Policy, Germanwatch
Jane C. Falkingham, Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, University of Southampton, UK, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change
Thiago Herick de Sa, Technical Officer for Age-friendly Environments, World Health Organization
Øyvind Ihlen, Professor, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Sebastian Klüsener, Head of Research Department "Ageing, Mortality and Population Dynamics" at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany
Nataliia Levchuk, Chief Researcher at the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies in Kyiv
Raya Muttarak, Professor of Demography at the University of Bologna, Italy
Amy Neumann-Volmer, Medical Doctor and Board member of Doctors Without Borders Germany
Adam Rogalewski, Policy Officer Health and Social Services, The European Federation of Public Service Unions
Doris Schaeffer, Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Literacy Research (IZGK) at Bielefeld University
Daniele Vignoli, Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, Italy
Virginia Wangare Greiner, CEO of the NGO Maisha
Lukas Welz, Executive Director at BAfF Federal Association of Psychosocial Centers for Survivors of Torture, War and Flight, Germany
Caroline Zickgraf, Deputy Director of the Hugo Observatory: Environment, Migration, Politics, the University of Liège

25 January | Day 3 | How We Can Better Prepare for Crises

Arnstein Aassve, Professor of Demography, Bocconi University, Italy and PI of FutuRes Project
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Professor of Mathematical Economics, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Donya Gilan, Psychologist and Head of the Science Communication Department at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) in Mainz, Germany
Anica Heinlein, Director of Communications & Advocacy and Head of Office Berlin at CARE Deutschland
Shelley Kupferberg, Journalist
Maja Lunde, Author, screenwriter and lecturer
Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London, UK
Claudia Neu, Professor for Rural Sociology at the Universities of Goettingen and Kassel, Germany
Bernard O. Onyango, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, African Institute for Development Policy
Andreas Schulze, Head of Department of Demographic Change, Older People, Welfare of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Yanina Taneva, Strategy Director and Co-Founder, Ideas Factory Bulgaria
Jörn Thiessen, Head of the Community, Cohesion and Democracy Department at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Cordula Weimann, founder of “Omas for Future”

Organisers and Partner Organisations of the Berlin Demography Days:

African Institute for Development Policy
Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue Française
Associazione Italiana per gli Studi di Popolazione
Bocconi University | FutuRes: Towards a Resilient Future of Europe
British Society for Population Studies | London School of Economics and Political Science
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie
Diakonie Deutschland
European Association for Population Studies
Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Demografie
Population Europe | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
United Nations Population Fund

The organisers would like to thank the following partners for their support of the Berlin Demography Days:

European Union (Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101094741)
Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin
German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
German Federal Ministry of Health
German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Stifterverband