Guy Abel

Biography

Guy Abel is a Research Scholar in the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He first joined the IIASA World Population Program in November 2011. He is a statistical demographer working predominantly with migration data to better predict past and future movement patterns and gain a richer understanding of how migration varies by core demographic variables such as age, sex, and education. He is also a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a Professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute based at Shanghai University, China, and a researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Population Change, and the Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) at the University of Southampton, UK.

He has worked as a consultant for Facebook, the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, and the World Bank, and taught courses on using R at the KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population




Last update: 01 OCT 2026