Byron Kotzamanis

Demographer, Docteur es Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Univ. Paris X, France). Researcher at the National Centre of Social Research (1983-1996) and Professor (1999-2019) of Demography (University of Thessaly, Dept of Planning and Regional Development). Principal Investigator, Research Project “Demographic Imperatives in Research and Practices in Greece -Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R), Univ. of Thessaly/ Research Committee (2021-2023). 

Director of the Laboratory of Demographic and Social Analyses of UTH (1998-2019). Director of the post-graduate studies program of the Dept. of Planning and Regional Studies (2001-2004) and of the Joint French-Greek Master Program “Population-Development-Foresight” organized by the Universities of Thessaly and Bordeaux (2015-2017).

President (2001-2004) and Honorary President since 2005 of the International Association of French Speaking Demographers (AIDELF). President (2007->) of the international Association Demobalk (Chevalier de Palmes Academiques of the French Government (2005). Expert in the European Commission responsible for the re-organization of the Statistical Institutes in the Western Balkan countries (Montenegro, Serbia, BiH) in the framework of PHARE and CARDS programs.

Scientific responsible for the implementation of several research programs financed by national, foreign and international institutions. Author, co-author and editor of books about demographic /population developments in Greece and the Balkans. Author of several papers in collective volumes examining issues of demographic policy, population projections, migration, mortality, family/fertility (as well as the spatial dimensions of demographic phenomena) in Greece / the Balkans.