Samir K.C.
Senior Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Senior Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Samir KC joined IIASA in 2005, and is currently leader of the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM) Research Group, in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program. KC is a founding member of and Professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University. KC leads ADRI's research pillar on Human Capital and Development. He is also a founding member of a new initiative in Nepal called "Digital Data Systems for Development." Since 2020, KC has been affiliated with the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, as a 'Distinguished Visiting Professor'.KC's primary research interests are: developing and applying multi-dimensional multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing on modeling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization. He has co-developed an R package (MSDem) that can simultaneously model multi-dimensional population dynamics at sub-national levels by age, sex, and educational attainment. KC has published in Science magazine (2011, 2014) and other peer-reviewed journals (e.g., GEC in 2014, PNAS in 2016 and 2018), and has co-edited and written several chapters in the book "World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century," published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
KC's master's degree in statistics is from Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1997). Subsequently, he taught university statistics in Kathmandu and worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. KC received his PhD. (specialized in demography and health) from the department of spatial science at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009).
Last update: 23 AUG 2023
Publications
Speringer, M., Goujon, A. , K.C., S., Potančoková, M. , Reiter, C. , Jurasszovich, S., & Eder, J. (2019). Global Reconstruction of Educational Attainment, 1950 to 2015: Methodology and Assessment. Vienna Institute of Demography , Vienna, Austria.
K.C., S., Speringer, M., Thapa, A., & Khanal, M.N. (2018). Projecting Nepal's Demographic Future- How to deal with spatial and demographic heterogeneity-Dataset.
K.C., S., Wurzer, M., Speringer, M., & Lutz, W. (2018). Future Population and Human Capital in Heterogeneous India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences e201722359. 10.1073/pnas.1722359115.
K.C., S., Lutz, W. , Lin, C., Goujon, A. , & Andruchowitz, S. (2018). Asian Demographic and Human Capital Data Sheet 2018. Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development, Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) and Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/OEAW, WU) , Laxenburg, Austria.
Lutz, W. , Goujon, A. , K.C., S., Stonawski, M., & Stilianakis, N. (2018). Demographic and Human Capital Scenarios for the 21st
Century: 2018 assessment for 201 countries. Publications Office of the European Union , Luxembourg. 10.2760/41776.