Dr. George Leeson

Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr George W Leeson is Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow in Demography at the University of
Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Martin School at the University.
His research interests are in the socio-economic-demographic aspects of ageing populations, and he is responsible for Oxford’s Global Ageing Survey carried out in three waves in more than 20 countries and including approximately 45,000 persons aged 40-79 years.

Dr Leeson is Visiting Professor of Demography at the University of Guanajuato-Leon in Mexico. Dr. Leeson is a member of PHE’s Expert Advisory Group on Productive Healthy Ageing and Dementia and he is also a member of the board of Oxfordshire County Council’s Living Well – Living Better Initiative.