David E. Bloom

David E. Bloom (born October 16, 1955) is an American author, academic, economist, and demographer. He is a Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, and director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He is widely considered as one of the greatest multidisciplinary social science researchers of the world.

Bloom has written and published over 250 articles and books focusing on health, demography, education, and labor. He has been a contributing editor of ''American Demographics'' and an associate editor of the ''Review of Economics and Statistics''. He has also served as a referee for over 50 academic journals, and has been a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of ''Science Magazine'' since August 1991.

He has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Galbraith Award for teaching. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in India (1982–1983) and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Russell Sage Foundation (1989–1990). Provided by Wikipedia