Billari Francesco

Francesco Billari is a Professor of Demography and, since November 2022, Rector of Bocconi University in Milan, after serving as Dean for Faculty. He has taught at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he was also Director) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Director of Independent Research on Early Adulthood Demography).

His main research interests include fertility and family change, the transition to adulthood, life course analysis, population forecasting, digitalization, and comparative demographic surveys. His work has been published in leading journals in demography, economics, epidemiology and public health, geography, sociology, and statistics. He has participated in numerous international projects and is currently the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council Advanced Grant.

He has served as president and secretary general/treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies and received the Clogg Award from the Population Association of America in 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania