Hafiz Khan is Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics in the Department of Economics and International Development and a demographer at the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce (CROW) in the Middlesex University Business School. He is also visiting Re-search Fellow in Demography at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford. Dr. Khan trained as a statistician at the University of Chittagong and as a demogra-pher at several institutions – Edinburgh Napier University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, the National University of Singapore and lastly at the University of Oxford. Dr. Khan's principal research interests lie in the broader areas of population and development including population ageing, poverty and vulnerability, microfinance; development issues, reproductive health and family planning in developing countries. He has also worked on the demographic issues of Bangladesh especially on the trends, determinants and differentials of fertility as well as elderly care and support. He has written extensively on population related issues and has over 90 academic publications in-cluding books and journal articles.