Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi | |
Birth Date: | 23 August 1965 |
Birth Place: | Yazd, Iran |
Fields: | Demography |
Workplaces: | University of Tehran |
Alma Mater: | University of Isfahan University of Tehran Australian National University |
Awards: | 2011 United Nations Population Award |
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Persian: محمدجلال عباسی شوازی; born 23 August 1965) is an Iranian demographer and the president of the Asian Population Association. He is a professor of the Department of Demography and Chair of the Division of Population Research at the University of Tehran.[1]
He was awarded the 2011 United Nations Population Award.[2] Abbasi Shavazi won Iran's Book of the Year Award for the book (with Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi and Peter Francis McDonald).[3]