Zsolt Spéder

Zsolt Spéder is a sociologist and a demographer. He leads the Program in Demography at the Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology.

His areas of research interest are: Family formation and fertility; Attitudes and values towards the family; Social inequalities and poverty; International comparisons. Previously, Zsolt Spéder taught at the Corvinus University of Budapest and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock; the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg; the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe; the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB); and Collegium Budapest - Institute of Advanced Study. Currently, he holds the positions of: Professor at the University of Pécs, Department of Sociology; Head of Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology at University of Pécs; Chief Scientific Advisor at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (former Director from 1999 until his resignation in 2023); Honorary President of the European Association for Population Studies Council.