The Committee of Recommendation of the AYHD consists of renowned dignitaries who support and promote our association. By being a member of the Committee they demonstrate their support for our mission statement: to further develop ourself as a leading platform for young historical demographers. Below you can find an overview of the people who support the AYHD and its objectives:

• George Alter, Research Professor (Institute for Social Research) and Professor of History at the University of Michigan
• Ioan Bolovan, vice-rector of Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and President International Commission for Historical Demography
  
• Cameron Campbell, Professor of Social Science at the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Changjiang Scholar at Central China Normal University and along with James Lee, leader of the Lee-Campbell group.
• Lisa Dillon, Professor of the Département de démographie at the Université de Montréal, and member of the panel Historical Demography at IUSSP.
• Jan Kok, Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University, Director Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History, and co-editor-in-chief History of the Family
• Kees Mandemakers, Professor of Large Historical Databases at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Senior Research Fellow IISH, and Chair of the EHPS-Net
• Koen Matthijs, Professor of Social Sciences, Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven,  Chair WOG Historische Demografie, and editor-in-chief Historical Life Course Studies.
• Alice Reid, Reader in Demography, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Churchill College, Member of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and member of the Editorial Board of Population Studies.
• Diego Ramiro Fariñas, Head of the Department of Population Studies at the Spanish National Research Council, member of the Editorial Board at Demography, President of the European Society of Historical Demography, Chair of the panel Historical Demography at IUSSP, and Coordinator LONGPOP

If you also would like to support our mission, please send an email to our president Joris Kok.