Speakers

William H. Frey

Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution; Research Professor, University of Michigan Population Studies Center; Senior Fellow, Milken Institute
WFREY@brookings.edu | (202) 797-6139

William H. Frey currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He is an internationally regarded demographer, known for his research on migration and U.S. urban and regional demographic change, as well as for his expertise on the U.S. Census. Frey's demographic expertise draws from his more than two decades at the University of Michigan, where he is on the faculty of the University's Institute for Social Research and Population Studies Center. He has authored over 100 publications and several books including "Regional and Metropolitan Growth and Decline in the U.S." and "America by the Numbers: A Fieldguide to the U.S. Population." At Michigan, Frey has directed projects with the National Science Foundation, NICHD Center for Population Research, NIA and several foundations. He has contributed to the 1995 President's National Urban Policy Report, to HUD's "State of the Cities 2000" report, to the Russel Sage Foundation's Census research series in 1980 and 1990 and has been consultant to the U.S. Census Bureau on migration research and publications. Frey's census commentary has been featured on a wide range of national broadcast media and print media including NPR, The ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, The NBC Nightly News, CNN's Inside Politics, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many others.