“Demography and Geopolitics: World Population Outlook and its Strategic Implications”
Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt
American Enterprise Institute
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches and writes extensively on demographics and
economic development generally, and more specifically on international security in the Korean
peninsula and Asia. Domestically, he focuses on poverty and social well-being. Dr. Eberstadt is
also a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).
His many books and monographs include “Poverty in China” (IDI, 1979); “The Tyranny of
Numbers” (AEI Press, 1995); “The End of North Korea” (AEI Press, 1999); “The Poverty of the
Poverty Rate” (AEI Press, 2008); and “Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis” (NBR, 2010).
His latest book is “Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis” (Templeton Press, 2016).
He has offered invited testimony before Congress on numerous occasions and has served as
consultant or adviser for a variety of units within the US government. His appearances on radio
and television range from NPR to CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”
Mr. Eberstadt has a PhD in political economy and government, an MPA from the Kennedy
School of Government, and an AB from Harvard University. In addition, he holds a master of
science from the London School of Economics.
In 2012, Mr. Eberstadt was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize.