Jack A. Goldstone

Expertise

• Global Population Change
• Long-Term Economic Growth
• Democracy and Development

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  Jack A. Goldstone

  Distinguished Visiting Fellow

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  Jack A. Goldstone is the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. A leading expert on revolutions, he has won multiple awards from the International Studies Association and the American Sociological Association. His book 10 Billion: How Aging, Immigration, Women and Youth will Change the World in the 21st Century will be published by Oxford University Press.

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  Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow of the Mercatus Center. Previously, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of California, and he has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University, UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the California Institute of Technology. He has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, the Ibn Khaldun Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, and the Mellon Foundation. He also served as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin.

  A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Goldstone is also an academic fellow of the European Policy Council and served on the International Advisory Board of the Gaidar Institute (Moscow). He led a National Academy of Sciences study of America’s democracy assistance and has served as a consultant on state fragility to USAID, Britain’s Department for International Development, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

  Goldstone’s research focuses on the impact of global population changes on social and economic development. His 2010 essay in Foreign Affairs—“The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends that will Change the World” —has been widely cited as a critical guide to the impact of future population change. He has been a keynote speaker at events in Oslo, Moscow, Antalya (Turkey), Delhi, Beijing, Berlin, Aspen (Colorado), and New York, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, CCTV, Russia Today, and Fox News.

  His latest book, 10 Billion: How Aging, Immigration, Women and Youth will Change the World in the 21st Century, will be published in 2026 by Oxford University Press. He earned his PhD at Harvard.

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