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Mills Melinda

Professor Melinda Mills MBE FBA FAcSS

Professor of Demography & Population Health and Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford


Melinda Mills (MBE, FBA) is Professor of Demography & Population Health and Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford and Nuffield College, UK and Professor of Data Science & Public Health Policy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is also founder of a data donation start-up. She is a Special Advisor to the European Commissioner of the Economy and has served on multiple international scientific and governmental advisory and data infrastructure boards. Mills has published 7 books and over 120 articles across multiple scientific disciplines with interests in demography, fertility and reproduction, labour market, molecular genetics and statistics. In 2018, she received an MBE for her scientific contributions.

A member of the Programme Committee, The Ditchley Foundation.

Programme Committee

Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

The Ditchley Internship Programme

The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.

Antique chairs and sofas at Ditchley Park

Our Home at Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been. 

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