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Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in History of Science and Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.

Duncan Kelly is Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. His research explores intellectual history and political theory, particularly of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.

Samita Sen is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on gender and labour. Her specialization is colonial South Asia but she has also done contemporary and interdisciplinary research on issues such as domestic violence and labour in the informal sector.

Louise Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at UNSW. She publishes on women and gender in China and Asia.

Angela Leung is Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She has published in Chinese, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and social history of medicine.

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn is a Chancellor’s Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) and Affiliated Scholar with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Simon Szreter is Professor in History and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. His main fields of research are demographic, public health, economic and social history, the history of empirical social science and methods for registering and measuring populations, and the relationship between history and contemporary public policy issues.

Shailaja Fennell is Director of Research at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, Reader in Regional Transformation and Economic Security at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College.

Robert Mayhew is Fellow and Senior Tutor at Pembroke College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research is at the interface of historical geography and intellectual history, a particular interest for the past decade being the ideas and legacies of Malthus.

John Pullen is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England Business School. His research interests include urban economics, the history of economic thought, and Thomas Robert Malthus. Prof. Pullen is the editor of Malthus’ correspondence and of numerous editions of the Principles of Political Economy.

Aya Homei is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester. She specialises in the history of East Asian science, technology, and medicine, with particular interests in the history of midwifery, discourses on Japanese population, Japanese family planning in Southeast Asia, and the science of old age.

Peter McDonald is Emeritus Professor of Demography in the School of Demography, Australian National University and a CI of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research. Professor McDonald’s work is focused on population policy, immigration, labour force and ageing in Australia; on the demography of Indonesia; and on theory relating to low fertility, the implications of low fertility for population futures and upon related policy options.

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health and Director of Program in Global Health and Ageing at Columbia University. Her interests and expertise are in the contemporary history of medicine and science in South Asia, the politics of infectious disease and epidemics, and the history of population anxieties in global health.