Board of Directors
David Bloom
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Director, Program on Global Demography & Aging
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Professor Bloom currently serves as the Director of the Harvard University Program on Global Demography and Aging and the Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has published over 200 articles and books in the fields of economics and demography and has been honored with a number of distinctions, including fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Galbraith Award for quality teaching in economics.
Professor Bloom has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, the National Academy of Sciences and the Asian Development Bank. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Foundation for AIDS Research and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1990 to 1993, Bloom served as the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Columbia University, and from 1996 to 1999, he served as Deputy Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development.