Graeme HUGO - professor of the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies

Graeme HUGO is professor of the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. He completed his PhD in demography at the Australian National University in 1975 and subsequently took up an appointment at Flinders University in South Australia moving to Adelaide University in 1992. He has since held visiting positions at the University of Iowa, University of Hawaii, Hasanuddin University (Indonesia) and the Australian National University and has worked with a number of international organisations, as well as many Australian government departments and instrumentalities.

He is the author of over two hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. His books include Australia’s Changing Population (Oxford University Press), The Demographic Dimension in Indonesian Development (with T. H. Hull, V. J. Hull and G. W. Jones, Oxford University Press), International Migration Statistics: Guidelines for Improving Data Collection Systems (with A.S. Oberai, H. Zlotnik and R. Bilsborrow, International Labour Office), Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century’s End (with D. S. Massey, J. Arango, A Kouaouci, A. Pellegrino and J. E. Taylor, Oxford University Press), several of the 1986, 1991 and 1996 census based Atlas of the Australian People Series (AGPS) and Australian Immigration: A Survey of the Issues (with Mark Wooden, Robert Holton and Judith Sloan, AGPS).

In 1987 Professor Hugo was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and has been president of the Australian Population Association and was a member of the National Population Council He was a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Committee on South-North Migration and is currently on the IUSSP Committee on Urbanization. He is Chair of the Australian Research Council’s Expert Advisory Committee on the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences. In 2002 he secured a $1.125 million ARC Federation Fellowship over five years for his research project, "The new paradigm of international migration to and from Australia: dimensions, causes and implications".