Wen-shan Yang is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology and also serving as the Director of the Program for Historical Demography, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in social demography from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a past president of Taiwanese Population Association (2005-2007). In the past several years, his research focuses on the marriage squeeze problems, the adaptation and assimilation of foreign brides to the Taiwanese society, and quality of life issues among the general and elderly population in Taiwan. He has published articles in many international research journals, including Social Sciences & Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, Lancet, Japanese Population Studies, Asian Journal of Social Science, Taiwanese Journal Population (Chinese), etc. His main research interests lie in areas of gender inequality in health, Taiwanese historical demographic transition and lowest-low fertility and elder health care in Taiwan. In 2010, he and his colleague Melody Chia-wen Lu published an edited volume on Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues by Amsterdam University Press; and in 2011 he and Theo Englen, John R. Shepherd published another edited volume on Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent: Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945 by Aksant.

Previous employment 
1. Carnegie Mellon
2. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta
3. Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

Other honorary or professional positions
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Publication 
1. Engelen, Theo, John R. Shepherd and Wen Shan Yang (eds), 2011. Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent. Life at the Exremes Vol. IV. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Aksant Academic Publishers.
2. Wen-shan Yang and Melody Li (eds.). 2010. Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
3. Meng-zhu Zhang, Wen-shan Yang and Ying-Chang Chuang. 2011 ―A Historical and Demographical Analysis of Concubine Marriage in Hsin-chu Area during Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan.‖ Journal of Social Science and Philosophy. 23: 117-158.
4. Chun-Hao Li, Wen-shan Yang and Ying-Chang Chuang. 2011. ―Can We Trust Japanese Colonial Taiwan Demographic Data?—An Empirical Study from the Demographic Indirect Estimation Techniques.‖ In Theo Engelen and John Shepherd (eds.) Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent. Mortality trends and characteristics in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945. Aksant: Amsterdam.
5. Sun-Chen Hung, Wen-shan Yang and Pei-Chih Yen, 2010. "More Than Lost in Translation? An Exploratory Study of Social Worker's Experience Working with Vietnamese Wives in Taiwan", International Journal of Social Work. (SSCI)
6. An-Chi Tung and Wen-shan Yang. 2006. ―Women‘s Job Security and Fertility Decisions: A Case Study of Taiwan.‖ The Journal of Population Studies 39: 39-55.

     Tey Nai Peng is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, where he teaches demography and survey methods, and was a coordinator of the Population Studies Unit at the University. He obtained his Master of Population Planning from University of Michigan. Prior to joining the University in 1992, he was the director of the Population Studies Center at the National Population and Family Development Board Malaysia (NPFDB). He now serves as a Board member of NPFDB, and the Evaluation Committee of the Federation of Reproductive Health Association, Malaysia (FRHAM). He is a founding member of Gerontology Association Malaysia, and Community Support Network. He is a member of APA, IUSSP and Asian Meta Center. He has presented papers at international and local conferences on population issues relating to fertility, marriage, reproductive health, gender, and ageing. He has published in journals such as Studies in Family Planning, Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, Asian Population Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Malaysian Journal of Reproductive Health, and Complementary Medicine. He has provided consultancy services to UNFPA, IPPF, NPFDB, FRHAM, Women Development Centre, Synergos Institute, Futures Group, WHO, ESCAP, ASEAN Secretariat, ESWA, and private companies.

Previous employment 
1. Deputy Director, Population Studies Center, National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia
2. Director, Population Studies Center, National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia
3. Statistician, National Population and Family Development Board

Other honorary or professional positions 
1. Coordinator, Population Studies Unit, University of Malaya
2. Board Member, National Population and Family Development Board Malaysia
3. Member, Evaluation Committee, Federation of Reproductive Health Association, Malaysia

Publication 
1. Tan Poo Chang and Tey Nai Peng (1994), ‗Do Fertility Intentions Predict Subsequent Behaviour? Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia‘, Studies in Family Planning, July-Aug 1994. 25(4). P. 222-231.
2. Tey Nai Peng (2007), ‗Trends in Delayed and Non-marriage in Peninsular Malaysia‘, Asia Population Studies). Volume 3, Number 3, November 2007, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
3. Shyamala Nagaraj, Nai Peng Tey, Chiu Wan Ng and Balambigai Balakrishnan. 2008. Ethnic Dimensions of Gender Differentials in Mortality in Malaysia‘, Journal of Population Research, Springer Netherlands. Vol. 25, Number 2, November, 2008 (pp 183-206) Tey NP, Ng ST, and Yew SY. 2012. Proximate Determinants of Fertility in Peninsular Malaysia, Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 24, Issue 3, Pages 489-499.
4. Tey Nai Peng (2005), ‗Trends and Patterns of Urbanization in Malaysia, 1970-2000‘ in Gayl D Ness and Prem P Talwar (eds.), Asian Urbanization in the New Millenium, Marshall Cavendish Academic (Auick Asian Urban Information Center of Kobe. Pp,178-221
5. Tey Nai Peng (2007). ‗The Family Planning Program in Malaysia‘ in Warren Robinson and John Ross (eds.), The Emergence of Family Planning Programs in the Developing World. World Bank.
6. Tey Nai Peng. (2011). ‗Understanding Marriage Trends and Patterns in Malaysia‘, Chapter 10 in Changing Marriage Trend in Insular Southeast Asia, Routledge, Francis and Taylors Group (ed. Gavin Jones, Terrence Hull and Maznah Mohamad)

      Rikiya Matsukura is a researcher at the Nihon University Population Research Institute. He has also been working as a guest researcher and lecturer of demographic analysis at the Statistical Research and Training Institute of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications from 2002 to the present. As a UN consultant, he has also contributed to the formulation of the latest five-year economic plan of the Laotian government.

      Rikiya Matsukura has more than 20 years of experience in demographic research, his interest focusing on the development of statistical methods for complicated models and the application of these methodologies to socio-economics and population. In the field of population and economy, in recent years he has been contributing to the development of the latest economic indices, the National Transfer Accounts.

      He has published articles in distinguished international journals such as Demography, Population and Development Review, The European Journal of Population, Asian Population Studies and Asia-Pacific Population Journal. Also, he has contributed numerous chapters to books on population economics published by NBER, Springer, Edward-Elgar and others.

Previous employment 
1. 2005-2009, Assistant professor, Advanced Research Institute for the Science and Humanities, Nihon University

Other honorary or professional positions 
1. 2003-present, Lecturer in demographic analysis at Population and Labor Course Program in Statistical Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
2. 2002-present, Lecturer in demographic analysis at Population and Labor Course Program in Statistical Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
3. 2005-2006, Collaborative researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Publication 
1. (With Robert D. Retherford and Naohiro Ogawa) "Explaining trends in coresidence of newly-married couples with parents in Japan." Asian Population Studies, Vol. 7-3: 195-218. 2011.
2. (With Robert D. Retherford, Naohiro Ogawa, and Hassan Eini-Zinab) ―Multivariate analysis of parity progression-based measures of the total fertility rate and its components using individual-level data,‖ Demography. Vol. 47-1: 97-124. 2011.
3. (With Robert Clark and Naohiro Ogawa) ―Population Decline, Labor Force Stability, and Their Future of the Japanese Economy,‖ European Journal of Population. Vol. 26-2: 207- 227. 2010.
4. (With Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, and Amonthep Chawla)"Japan‘s Unprecedented Aging and Changing Intergenerational Transfers," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia, NBER-EASE Vol. 19:131-160. 2010. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
5. (With Robert L. Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, and Sang-Hyop Lee) ―Older Workers and National Productivity in Japan,‖ Population and Development Review Supplements Vol. 34: 257-274. 2008.
6. (With Robert D. Retherford and Naohiro Ogawa) ―Late Marriage and Less Marriage in Japan,‖ Population and Development Review Vol. 27: 65-102, 2001.

      Dr. K G Santhya is an outstanding economist and demographer, with 12 years of experience in designing and conducting rigorous qualitative and quantitative studies on rights of youth, gender equity and women‘s empowerment, reproductive health and gender based violence. She is an associate at the Population Council‘s office in New Delhi, where she manages and conducts research on maternal health and young people‘s reproductive and sexual health issues. She holds a Ph.D. in population studies from Flinders University, Australia, and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Kerala and in population studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, India. She was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Population Council. She has worked extensively with multiple stakeholders from the government, NGO and development sectors. She has authored 40 book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and study reports on child marriage, the needs of married adolescents, violence against women, maternal health, and youth sexual and reproductive health. She has been called upon to provide peer review to many international journals on health, education and youth. She has served or currently serves as a member of various panels, including the Scientific Panel on Reproductive Health, and the Scientific Panel on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Behaviour, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Previous employment 
1. Associate I, Population Council
2. Senior Programme Officer, Population Council
3. Programme Officer, Population Council

Other honorary or professional positions 
1. Member, Scientific Panel on Reproductive Health (2011-2014), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
2. Co-theme leader, Life-course analysis in Asian Countries, The 2nd Asian Population Association Conference
3. Member, Scientific Panel on Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS (2006-2010), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

Publication
1. Treatment-seeking for symptoms of reproductive tract infections among young women in India, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2012, (with S. Sabarwal)
2. Condom use before marriage and its correlates: Evidence from India, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011, (with R Acharya and SJ Jejeebhoy)
3. Early marriage and sexual and reproductive health vulnerabilities of young women: a synthesis of recent evidence from developing countries, Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2011
4. Effects of the Janani Suraksha Yojana on maternal and newborn care practices: Women‘s experiences in Rajasthan. New Delhi: Population Council, 2011, (with SJ Jejeebhoy, R Acharya and AJ Francis Zavier)
5. Parent-child communication on sexual and reproductive health matters: Perspectives of mothers and fathers of youth in India. New Delhi: Population Council, 2011, (with SJ Jejeebhoy)
6. Timing of first sex before marriage and its correlates: evidence from India, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2011, (with R Acharya, SJ Jejeebhoy and U Ram)