Sara Curran,^* Anuradha Kumar,^** Wolfgang Lutz,^*** Meryl Williams<sup>****


*</sup>Sara R. Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology at Princeton University. She researches population and environment issues, globalization, gender and family demography, migration, and Thailand. Curran received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS from North Carolina State and BS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan. Her address: 153 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. curran@Princeton.edu
^**As Senior Program Officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Anu Kumar was responsible for grant making in the area of population, consumption, and the environment. Anu holds a PhD in anthropology and a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of expertise include women's reproductive health, South Asia, and qualitative research methodologies. She is currently Executive Vice-President of IPAS, an international women's health organization. Her address: IPAS, 300 Market Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA. KumarA@ipas.org
^***Wolfgang Lutz is Leader of the Population Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, Director of the Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and Adjunct Professor in Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Vienna. Lutz received his PhD and MA in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include fertility, the family, population and environment. His address: IIASA, Population Program, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria.
^****Meryl Williams was appointed Director General of ICLARM – The World Fish Center, in 1993. She holds a PhD in Zoology and a Masters Degree in Literary Studies (mathematical statistics). She was previously Director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Executive Director of the former Bureau of Rural Resources in the Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a board member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a member of the FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research and an advisory committee member for the MacArthur Foundation Population, Consumption and Environment initiative. Her address: ICLARM, World Bank Center, Jalan Batu Maun, Batu Maung, 11 Bayan Lepas, MALASIA. m.j.williams@cgiar.org