Melinda Mills

Melinda Mills is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, Professor of Demography and Population Health, Founder of Data4Science and Special Advisor to the European Commissioner of the Economy. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, combining demography, molecular genetics, statistics and behavioural research. Mills has received numerous honours and awards including an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire, 2018), elected as Fellow of the British Academy (2018), Trailblazer Award (2022), Excellence in Impact Award (2021) and Clifford C. Clogg Award (2018).