Dirk van de Kaa#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 532 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENT, SPACE AND SUSTAINABILITY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Dirk van de Kaa passed away May 22, 2026.
Positions Held
- Emeritus professor University of Amsterdam
- 1991 - 1992 Professor of the Cleveringa chair (Dutch: bijzonder hoogleraar) at Leiden University
- 1988 to 1998 Unpaid regular professor
- 1987 - 1988 Regular professor
- 1987 - 1995 Director and rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
- 1978 - 1987 Part-time professor (Dutch: buitengewoon hoogleraar) of demography at the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- European population problems
- Demography
- Theory of the second demographic transition
Honours and Awards
- Founder and Honorary President of the European Association for Population Studies
- Honorary Fellow of Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague
- 1976 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1988 - 1998 President of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- 1990 - 1996 Chairperson of the Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Raad of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2003 Honorary Doctor, Warsaw School of Economics
