The Commission has more than 250 members from 45 countries and aims to promote research and teaching on population geography and geographical population studies around the globe. Come and join us!
The Comission on Population Geography has a Steering Committee consistsing of a Chair, a Vice-Chair, a Secretary, and 10 more members who meet regularly at the IGU's international/regional conferences.
Etienne Piguet, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. email: etienne.piguet@unine.ch
Jianfa Shen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. email: jianfa@cuhk.edu.hk
Nikola Sander, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. email: n.d.sander@rug.nl
Samuel Agyei-Mensah, University of Ghana, Ghana. email: samensah@ug.edu.gh
Martin Bell, University of Queensland, Australia. email: martin.bell@uq.edu.au
Rainer Wehrhahn, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. email: wehrhahn@geographie.uni-kiel.de
Patrick Sakdapolrak, University of Vienna, Austria. email: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at
Elli Heikkila, Institute of Migration (Turku), Finland. email: elheik@utu.fi
Gunnar Malmberg, University of Umeå, Sweden. email: gunnar.malmberg@geography.umu.se
Satoshi Nakagawa, Kobe University, Japan. email: nakagawa@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp
Bruce Newbold, McMaster University, USA. email: newbold@mcmaster.ca
Alina Potrykowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. email: A.Potrykowska@stat.gov.pl
Darren Smith, University of Loughborough, UK. email: d.p.smith@lboro.ac.uk
Suzanne Withers, University of Washington, USA. email: swithers@u.washington.edu
Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai, National University of Singapore, Singapore. email: - geoysa@nus.edu.sg
August 2015: the International Geographical Union Regional Conference took place in Moscow, Russia.
June 2015: the International Conference on Population Geographies took place in Brisbane, Australia.
August 2014: the International Geographical Union Regional Conference took place in Kracow, Poland
The 33rd International Geographical Congress will take place in Beijing, China in August 2016.
Send an email to n.d.sander@rug.nl to become a Corresponding Member of the Commission and to receive our email newsletter.
Past newsletters:
Association of American Geographers
Population Association of America
Australian Population Association
IGU Commisssion: Global Change and Human Mobility
Asia Pacific Migration Research Network
Asia Research Institute (Asia Migration Cluster)
Institute of Migration - Finland
Special Issue of Population, Space and Place on Population and Vulnerability
Email the Commission's Secretary at n.d.sander@rug.nl if you want to become a Corresponding Member and to receive our email newsletter.