Professor Janina Jóźwiak
Chairperson of the FNP Council

Born 15 February 1948 in Cieśle, she is a graduate of the Main School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw (now the Warsaw School of Economics). Now a professor at the WSE, she is also director of the Statistics and Demography Institute there.

Her areas of interest include mathematical demography (in particular the modelling of population dynamics and structure), demographical forecasting, and the application of statistical methods to population studies. She is the author of over a hundred publications dealing with various demography- and statistics-related topics issued in Poland and abroad, including a monograph "Mathematical Models of Population", NIDI, The Hague, 1992.

Between 1993 and 1999 Professor Jóźwiak was Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics; from the year 2000 to 2004 she held the position of Deputy Chairperson of the State Committee for Scientific Research during its fourth term of office, and occupied the chair of its Social, Economic and Legal Sciences Group.

She is currently Chairperson of the European Association for Population Studies, Deputy Chairperson of the Polish Demographical Society and Poland in the United Europe Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as co-ordinator of the Knowledge and Innovations for Development segment of the Polish Forum of the Lisbon Strategy.
Professor Jóźwiak is also a member of the International Max Planck Research School in Demography consortium; the editorial board of the publication series "European Studies of Population"; and the Board of the Central European Forum for Migration Research.

Address for correspondence:
Szkoła Główna Handlowa,
Al. Niepodległości 162,
02-554 Warszawa, Poland
tel./fax (+48 22) 646 61 38,

e-mail:ninaj@sgh.waw.pl