David Horlacher

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David Horlacher

Johnson Distinguished Scholar in Economics

Munroe Hall 311

Phone: 802.443.5623

Email: horlache@middlebury.edu

Alma Mater: Pennsylvania State Univ.

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Christian A. Johnson Visiting Fellow and Professor of Economics (1992); Population Growth, Microeconomics

David Horlacher is currently Christian A. Johnson Visiting Fellow and Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, VT, USA. Receiving his doctorate in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1974, he served as professor of economics at Bucknell and Susquehanna Universities. During this period, he was a consultant in population and development for USAID and the Futures Group. He chaired the Population Panel of the South East Asia Development Advisory Group. He was also a consultant, and later staff member, of the Population Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. In 1980 he was appointed Chief of the Population and Development Section of the UN Population Division in New York. In that capacity he served on missions to the Soviet Union, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Thailand, and Malaysia. Since being appointed to his current post in 1991, he has served on UN missions to Egypt, the Maldives and China. He has taught in Kazakhstan for the Soros Foundation and in Vietnam for the Ford Foundation and later as a Fulbright Scholar. He has participated in the work of the Social Security program at IIASA and was a coauthor of its publication, “The Economic Impacts of Population Aging in Japan”. Currently he is reviewing scientific findings on the determinants, consequences and policy issues as part of the IIASA project on Health and Global Change.