Dr. Bertrand Desjardins Universite de Montreal, Canada

Bertrand Desjardins is a Senior Researcher in the Demography Department at the Universite de Montreal and he holds a PhD in demography from the University Lumiere-Lyon2 and is the author of numerous scientific publications centered on the study of the Canadian and Quebec populations. He has been associated all his... read moreprofessional life with the Programme de recherche en demographie historique (Research Program in Historical Demography), a major project at the Universite de Montreal aimed at setting up a database of the entire French-Canadian population of Quebec from its beginnings in 1608; this database generates in-depth information allowing studies in the fields of demography, history, anthropology and population genetics.