Rate My Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten

Stuart Gietel-Basten is a Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Historical Demography from the University of Cambridge, awarded in 2008. He joined HKUST in 2017 as Associate Professor of Social Science and Public Policy with a joint appointment between the Division of Social Science in the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Division of Public Policy. Prior to joining HKUST, he was Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. At HKUST he serves as Director of the Center for Aging Science, Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Director of the Leadership and Public Policy Executive Education Program. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Institute of Emerging Market Studies.

His research examines the interplay between changing population dynamics and public and social policy, with a regional focus on Asia. Key areas include fertility transition, conceptual approaches to ageing, and population policy. He coordinates the GGS-Asia project to implement the Generations and Gender Survey in Asian settings. He has published numerous articles in leading journals in demography and related disciplines. His books include Why Demography Matters, co-authored with Danny Dorling and published by Polity Press in 2018, and The “Population Problem” in Pacific Asia, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He co-edited Family Demography in Asia with Minja-Kim Choe and John Casterline, published by Edward Elgar in 2019. He teaches courses including Research Methods in Public Policy, Population and Society, and Research Methods in the Social Sciences, and has organized executive education programs on ageing and future policy planning. He is a regular contributor to outlets such as the South China Morning Post and China Daily.