David Coleman has been the
Reader in Demography at Oxford
University since 1996. Between 1985
and 1987 he was a Special Adviser for
the British government. Researches
include the comparative demographic
trends in the industrial world and the
demography of ethnic minorities. He
has been a consultant for the Home
Office and the United Nations.
Professor Coleman has published over
90 papers; eight books include The
British Population: patterns, trends and
processes (with J. Salt, 1992, Oxford
University Press) and Immigration to
Denmark: national and international
perspectives (with E. Wadensjö, 1999,
Aarhus University Press). He was
joint editor of the European Journal of
Population from 1992 to 2000 and in
1997 was elected to the Council of
the International Union for the
Scientific Study of Population.