Jennifer D. Sciubba

About

Jennifer D. Sciubba, Ph.D., is President & CEO of PRB. Under her leadership, PRB serves as a trusted voice on population change—helping policymakers, practitioners, journalists, and communities make sense of fertility trends, aging populations, migration patterns, and their implications for economics, politics, and daily life.

Dr. Sciubba leads PRB’s work on some of today’s most contested demographic trends—from depopulation and declining fertility to migration and aging—pushing back against alarmism and centering evidence, context, and locally-grounded resilience. She positions the organization as a bridge between national data and local lived experience, emphasizing that demographic change requires not panic, but nuance and adaptation.

A political demographer, author, and public communicator, she speaks to extraordinarily diverse audiences: military leaders at the Naval War College and Air War College, corporate executives and business councils, federal and local policymakers, and community organizations. Her analysis has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and on CNN, BBC, and the TED stage.

She is the author of several books, including 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World (W.W. Norton, 2022), and co-author of Toxic Demography: Ideology and the Politics of Population (Oxford University Press, 2025), which examines how population dynamics have been entangled with ideology, identity, and nationalism from historical manipulations to contemporary debates.

Before leading PRB, she was a tenured professor at Rhodes College, consulted for the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), and studied at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. She is a non-resident fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Phi Beta Kappa.

You can find links to her research at http://jennifersciubba.com.

Pronunciation of Sciubba: Shoo-ba (rhymes with “tuba”)