Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the department of Development Sociology at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and Associate Director of Cornell’s Population Center. He has teaching, research and policy expertise in the general area of population and development, with specific emphasis on the effects of population dynamics on changes in economic growth, education, inequality, health and security. Prior to coming to Cornell, he was affiliated with the RAND Corporation (Los Angeles) and earned a doctorate (Demography and Sociology) from the Pennsylvania State University and an advanced degree in Agricultural Economics and Development Sociology from Cameroon. He has taught across multiple continents, mostly Africa, North America and Asia, and has extensive experience with both field research and policy communication. Over the last seven years, and with support from the Hewlett Foundation and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, he has led a network to advance demographic training in Francophone Africa, including the study of demographic dividends. He has consulted with the United Nations, the World Bank and USAID, and has worked on the Board of Directors of several professional associations and institutions, including the Population Association of America, the Population Reference Bureau, the Guttmacher Institute, and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.  He recently was a member of an independent group of 15 scientists nominated by the UN’s Secretary General Panel to draft the first quadrennial report of the report on Sustainable Development Goals.