José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva

José Henrique is a PhD candidate in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Brasília, Brazil and he holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Demography from the University of Campinas, Brazil. Before joining the Graduate Group in Demography at UPenn, José worked at the International Policy Centre for the Inclusive Growth, an institution founded from a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Brazil and at the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE), the population division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is interested in formal demography and in the application and assessment of indirect methods for demographic estimation in countries with poor quality data.