Francesco Billari

Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography at Bocconi University in Milan. He became Rector in November 2022 after having held the role of Dean of the Faculty. He worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood). Prof. Billari served as President and Secretary-General/Treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies, and he received the 'Clogg Award' from the Population Association of America in 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an affilate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.