Intervenant
Hervé LE BRAS
Research director emeritus - INED, National institute of demographic studies, Paris
Research director emeritus at Ined (National institute of demographic studies, Paris)
Professor at EHESS (école des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Chair « Territoires et populations » at the Global Studies College of the FMSH (fondation maison des sciences de l’homme) director of the LDH (historical demography laboratory : ehess/cnrs) from 1987 until 2007), chief editor of Population (1978-1990), associate editor of mathematical population studies, Demographic research, Autrepart, revue de synthèse, Histoire et mesure, Raison présente, Books, etc. Was a member of the Attali commission, the Juppé-Schweitzer commisison, the Haut comité de la population et de la famille, the conseil scientifique de la défense nationale, the conseil d’administration de l’école normale supérieure (Ulm), the conseil d’orientation des sciences sociales, etc.
Publications:
– The Nature of Demography, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008
– Vie et mort de la population mondiale, Cité des sciences de la Villette, Le Pommier, Paris 2010
– L’invention de l’immigré, éd. de l’Aube, Paris, 2012
– L’invention de la France (with Emmanuel Todd), Gallimard, coll. NRF, Paris, 2012
– Birth of Mortality : political roots of demography and statistics, Springer, New-York, (to appear in december 2012)