Project Advisers
Charles F. Westoff, Princeton University
John Casterline, Ohio State University
Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Xenos, University of Hawaii
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Carl Haub, Population Reference Bureau
Mohamed Ayad, ICF Macro
Consultants
Below is the list of demographers and social scientists with whom the Pew Forum consulted to arrive at the population size estimates, growth rates and future population size estimates included in this report. Most were working in their individual capacities rather than as representatives of their institution or organization.
All Muslim population estimates were arrived at using multiple sources and may not be identical with the estimates used or suggested by a particular country expert.
Mohammed Abu-Nimer, American University, Washington, D.C. (Country Focus: United States)
Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, the West Bank (Country Focus: Palestinian territories)
Victor Agadjanian, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona (Country Focus: Kazakhstan)
Tauseef Ahmed, Freelance Consultant, Pakistan (Country Focus: Pakistan)
Mohamed Ahmed Al-Haddad, Freelance Consultant, Yemen (Country Focus: Yemen)
Yousef Al-Madi, Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics, Syria (Country Focus: Syria and Palestinians living in Syria and Lebanon)
Nurul Alam, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh: Public Health Sciences Division, Health and Demographic Surveillance Unit, Bangladesh (Country Focus: Bangladesh)
Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore (Country Focus: Indonesia)
M’hamed Ayed, Freelance Consultant, Tunisia (Country Focus: Tunisia)
Bilal Barakat, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria (Country Focus: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)
Jennifer B. Barrett, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands (Country Focus: Uzbekistan)
Cem Behar, Bogaziçi University, Turkey (Country Focus: Turkey)
Ali Çarkoglu, Sabancı University, Turkey and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands (Country Focus: Turkey)
Rufat Efendiyev, Institute of Economy, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan (Country Focus: Azerbaijan)
Karl Feld, D3 Systems, Inc., Vienna, Virginia (Country Focus: Afghanistan)
Anne Goujon, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, (Country Focus: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States)
Ali Hassen, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (Country Focus: Ethiopia)
Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (Country Focus: Indonesia)
Timothy Heleniak, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (Country Focus: Russia)
Mohammad Irfan, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan (Country Focus: Pakistan)
Aree Jumpaklay, The Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidal University, Thailand (Country Focus: Thailand)
Samir KC, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria (Country Focus: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom)
Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck College, University of London, England (Country Focus: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden)
Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (Regional Focus: Middle East and South Asia)
Rshood M. Khraif, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (Country Focus: Saudi Arabia)
Barkat-e-Khuda, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Country Focus: Bangladesh)
Khalid Khawaja, Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics, Jordan (Country Focus: Jordan)
Ali Kouaouci, University of Montreal, Canada (Country Focus: Algeria)
Idrissa Alichina Kourgueni, Centre International d’Etude et de Recherché, Niger (Country Focus: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger)
Li Jianxin, Peking University, China (Country Focus: China)
Erling Lundevaller, Umeå University, Sweden (Country Focus: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)
Aslam Mahmood, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (Country Focus: India)
Gisele Maynard-Tucker, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, California (Country Focus: Guinea)
Khaleel Mohammed, San Diego State University, San Diego, California (Country Focus: Argentina, Brazil and Guyana)
Khan Mohammad Mohsin, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Country Focus: Bangladesh)
Abdul Ghaffar Mughal, South and East European University, Macedonia (Country Focus: Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan)
Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. (Country Focus: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, Institut National d’Études Démographiques, France (Country Focus: Libya and Morocco)
Kolawole Azeez Oyediran, John Snow Incorporated, Nigeria (Country Focus: Nigeria)
Sureeporn Punpuing, The Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidal University, Thailand (Country Focus: Thailand)
Farzaneh Zayan Roudi, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C. (Country Focus: Iran)
Abdul Majid Salleh, Freelance Consultant, Malaysia (Country Focus: Malaysia)
Abdel Aziz Hussein Sayed, Cairo University, Egypt (Country Focus: Egypt)
Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria (Country Focus: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom)
Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria (Country Focus: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom)
El Daw Abdalla Suliman, Population Council, Sudan (Country Focus: Sudan)
Charles H. Teller, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C. (Country Focus: Ethiopia)
Peter Xenos, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii (Country Focus: Philippines)
Yang Gui Ping, Central University for Nationalities in China, China (Country Focus: China)
Farhat Yusuf, Macquarie University, Australia (Country Focus: Australia, Canada and New Zealand)
