Nicholas Eberstadt Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (202) 862-5825 Fax (202) 862-4877 Email [email protected] CAREER 1999- Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute 1985-1999 Visiting Scholar American Enterprise Institute 1980-2002 Visiting Fellow Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 1979-1980 Visiting Research Fellow Rockefeller Foundation 1976-1979 Teaching Fellow Harvard University EDUCATION 1995 Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, Harvard University 1979 M.P.A., Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 1978 M.Sc., London School of Economics (Social Planning for Developing Countries) 1976 A.B., Harvard College (Economics), Magna Cum Laude ACADEMIC 2008 Bosch Fellow in Public Policy, American Academy in Berlin 1999 Visiting Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle 1988-1990 Adviser, Catholic University Institute on Health and Development 1979-1981 Associate, Harvard Center International Affairs 1976-1979 Taught courses in population and natural resources, agricultural economics, social science and social policy, and problems of policy making in less developed countries; Harvard University NON-ACADEMIC 2006- 2009 Member, Presidents Commission on Bioethics 2005- 2008 Member, Presidential HELP Commission 2003- Member, Publication Committee, Public Interest magazine 2003- Member, Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard School of Public Health 2003- Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health Statistics 2003- Advisory Board, U.S.–China AIDS Foundation 2002- Founding Member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea 2002- 2007 Member, Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), United States Agency for International Development 1999- Commissioner, CSIS Global Aging Initiative 1998- Advisory Board, Korea Economic Institute 1997- Member, Board of Advisors, Environmental Literacy Council 1996- Member, Council on Foreign Relations 1996- Member, Board of Advisors, National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, Washington 1996- 1998 Member, CSIS Taskforce on the Future of the World Bank 1996 Consultant, Congressional Budget Office 1995- 1997 Panel Member, Independent Commission on Environmental Education 1995- Board of Advisors, Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), Washington, D.C. 1992- 1993 Member, Advisory Board, World Development Report, World Bank, Washington, D.C. 1992- Research Associate, National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, WA 1989- Consultant, U.S. Bureau of the Census 1988- 1989 Consultant, Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 1987- 1988 Consultant, Working Seminar on the American Family and Welfare Policy, Washington, DC 1987 National Endowment for Democracy observer, Republic of Korea Presidential Elections 1986- 1988 Member, Shadow Committee on Development, Washington, DC 1986 Consultant, Legal Services Corporation 1985- 1990 Term member, Council on Foreign Relations 1985- 1990 Member, Board of Advisers, Overseas Development Network 1983 Awardee, Lehrman Institute, Visiting Fellowship 1982- Consultant, World Bank 1981- 1982 Consultant, United States State Department 1981- 1990 Charter member, Committee on the Free World 1978- 1979 Consultant, U.S. Agency for International Development (Population) 1975 International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines, Rice Training Program LANGUAGES German: good reading, fair speaking French: fair reading, some speaking Spanish: some reading, some speaking SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books: Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications (Seattle, WA: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010) Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91 (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010) The Poverty of “The Poverty Rate”: Measure and Mismeasure of Material Want in Modern America (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2008) The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Books: 2007) A New International Engagement Framework for North Korea (Washington, DC: Korean Economic Institute: 2004) (eds. Dr. Ahn Choong-yong, Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, and Dr. Lee Young-sun) Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis, with Sally Satel (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2004) Faultlines in China’s Economic Terrain (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2003) (Charles Wolf, Jr., K.C. Yeh, Benjamin Zycher, and Sung-Ho Lee, coauthors) Korea’s Future and the Great Powers (Seattle, WA: University of Washington, 2001) (Richard J. Ellings, co-editor) Prosperous Paupers & Other Population Problems (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000) The End of North Korea (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1999) The Tyranny of Numbers (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995) Korea Approaches Reunification (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995) The Population of North Korea, with Judith Banister (Berkeley, CA: University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992) The Poverty of Communism (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988; paperback edition, 1990) Foreign Aid and American Purpose (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1988) Fertility Decline in Less Developed Countries (Editor) (Praeger Books, 1981). Poverty in China (International Development Institute, 1979) Monographs: Europe’s Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health. (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, December 2007), with Hans Groth. The Graying of the “Emerging Markets”: Population Aging in Today’s Low-Income Countries (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, June 2006) Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis, HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World, (Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, June 2005), with Laura M. Kelly. Population Power: Another Transatlantic Divergence?, AEI European Outlook, November 1, 2004. On the Frontline of an Epidemic: The Need for Urgency in Russia’s Fight Against AIDS (Report of the U.S.-Russia Working Group Against HIV/AIDS; coauthor) (New York, NY: Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS and EastWest Institute, September 2003). Socio-Economic Development in Divided Korea: A Tale of Two “Strategies.” Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series, Vol. 11, No. 5 (April 2001). Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Economies: The Airlie House Conference. Volume I: Total Output and Consumption. AEI Press, 2000, with Johnathan Tombes. Comparing the US and Soviet Economies: The Airlie House Conference. Volume II: Military Expenditures, Capital Goods, and Selected Sectors. AEI Press, 2000, with Johnathan Tombes. Political, Economic and Social Implications of Eastern Asia’s Population Prospects to the Year 2015, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series, No. 99.16 (December 1999) What if it’s a World Population Implosion?: Speculations About the Demographics of Global Depopulation, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series, No. 98.04 (March 1998) Demographic Shock in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series, No. 94.02 (February 1994) Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe: Retrospect and Prospect, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series No. 94.01 (January 1994) Divided Korea: Demographic and Socio-Economic Issues for Reunification, with Judith Banister, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series No. 5 (December 1992) Population and Labor Force in North Korea: Trends and Implications, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working Paper Series No. 3 (March 1992) U.S. -Foreign Aid Policy--A Critique (New York: Foreign Policy Association, Headliner Series; Summer, 1990) Articles, Congressional Testimony, and Book Chapters: 2012 “City Hall’s Health Confusion,” New York Post, January 8, 2012. 2011 “India’s demographic outlook: implications and trends, National Bureau of Asian Research, December 29, 2011. “Kim Jong Il: Road to Ruin,” Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2011. “North Korea’s Kim Jong Il failed to prepare his successor,” The Daily Beast, December 20, 2011. “The death of Kim Jong Il and North Korea’s broken dynasty,” Foreign Affairs, December 20, 2011. “Fertility decline in the Muslim world: a veritable sea-change, still curiously unnoticed,” AEI Working Paper on Development Policy, December 19, 2011. Preface for Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics. Eds. Susan Yoshihara and Douglas A. Sylva. (Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2011). “Russia’s Demographic Constraints: Dimensions and Strategic Implications.” In Richard Weitz, ed., Can We Manage a Declining Russia?, (Washington, DC: Hudson Institute, December 2011), pp. 118-186, with Apoorva Shah. “Can we pleeease have a North Korea strategy?” The Enterprise Blog, November 14, 2011. “Five myths about the world’s population,” Washington Post, November, 6, 2011. “Are we ready to deal with a *weaker* Russia?” The Enterprise Blog, November 2, 2011. “The Dying Bear: Russia’s Demographic Disaster,” Foreign Affairs, November/ December 2011. “Seven Billion Reasons to Celebrate,” The American, November 1, 2011. “AEI Debate Prep: Europe’s fundamental long-term deficit isn’t measured in euros; it’s measured in babies,” The Enterprise Blog, October 31, 2011. “Fewer Babies, for Better or Worse” The New York Times Room for Debate. October 16, 2011. “Should North Korea be Provided with Humanitarian Aid?” Global Asia, September 22,