Organization

The lead institutions for the NTA project are the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at the University of California at Berkeley and the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Regional centers are based at the East-West Center, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, the African Economic Research Consortium in Nairobi, and the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm.

Since the project was initiated, support has been provided by the U.S. National Institute on Aging; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada; the United Nations Population Division; the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the European Science Foundation; and a grant to the Nihon University Population Research Institute from the Academic Frontier Project for Private Universities.

Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason are co-principal investigators.

NTA research scholars and graduate students are based in universities, government statistical agencies and research institutes, private research institutions, and international organizations in 42 economies around the world, as follows:

Asia-Pacific: Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

The Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay

Europe: Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Africa: Benin, Ghana (pending), Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa