Professor Ronald D. Lee holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has done postdoctoral work at the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in France. After teaching for eight years at the University of Michigan, in 1979 Professor Lee joined the Departments of Demography and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently holds the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Chair in the Department of Economics and is the Director of the Center for Studies in the Economics and Demography of Aging at Berkeley.
Professor Lee is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His other titles include the Presidency of the American Association for Population Studies, the Mindel Prize. C. Sheps for his research in mathematical demography and the Irene B. Taeuber Award for outstanding contributions in the field of demography. He also chaired the NIH’s Population Studies and Social Sciences Section and the National Academy of Sciences Population Committee, and served on the National Commission on Population Aging. Professor Lee is currently a member of the Council on Child Health and Human Development in the USA.