Peter McDonald (demographer)


Peter Francis McDonald is an Australian demographer and Emeritus Professor of Demography in the Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University. He is known for his research on fertility transition and migration. He researched extensively in Southeast Asia.
In 2016 McDonald was appointed Professor of Demography and head of the Demography Unit within the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne.

Career

He had a significant impact on demographic teaching, research and policy formulation and received the Irene B. Taeuber Award in 2015. In 2013 the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, described McDonald as "arguably the world’s leading demographer".
McDonald won Iran's Book of the Year Award for the book .