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Manuel Nazareth

Short CV

  • PhD in Demography from the University of Leuven.
  • PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Brussels.
  • Aggregate in Demography by Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
  • Full Professor of Demography at Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 1980.
  • Secretary of State for Higher Education of the V Portuguese Constitutional Government.
  • Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
  • Director of the Demographic Studies Office of the National Statistics Institute.
  • Director of the Higher Institute of Statistics and Information Management.
  • Vice-Rector of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Main published books

  • The aging of the Portuguese population (Presença, 1976)
  • Demography- the science of population (Editorial   Presença, 5 eds, 2004)
  • Growing up and aging – constraints and opportunities of demographic aging (Presença, 2009)

He is currently a researcher at SAER – “Sociedade de Avaliação e Risco” (Lisbon) and at CEPESE – Center for Population Studies, Economics and Society, University of Porto.