Keynote Speakers

Céline LeBourdais

Formerly full professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique - Urbanisation, culture et société, Céline Le Bourdais holds, since 2004, the Canada Research Chair in Social Statistics and Family Change and teaches at the Department of Sociology in McGill. Her main research interests include family transformations, conjugal and parental trajectories, father-child contact after parental separation, family/work conciliation, longitudinal analysis, social statistics, and family policy. Among her several professional achievements, one can cite the creation of the Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques in 1997 (with Victor Piché), and the foundation of the Quebec Interuniversity Centre for Social Statistics in 2001 (with Paul Bernard) which she still directs today. She holds a M.Sc. in Demography (Université de Montréal) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (Brown University).

James F. Phillips

James F. Phillips is a Senior Associate in the Policy Research Division of the Population Council New York Office. He is well known for his fieldwork regarding the measure of the demographic role of family planning programs in Thailand, the Philippines, and Bangladesh where he directed Bangladesh's Matlab Community Health and Family Planning Project. During the past few years, he has been working as a senior advisor on a collaborative research program with the Ghana Health Service and the Navrongo Health Research Centre that aims to extend the Navrongo community-based health service model to all Ghanaian districts. He holds a M.S. in Population Studies (University of Hawaii) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Michigan).