Phil Rees (academic)
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Professor Phillip Howell Rees FRGS, FBA, CBE (born 17th Sept 1944) is a British population geographer and demographer. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at the University of Leeds
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Biography

Born in Wales, he was educated at St. Catharine's College
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, University of Cambridge
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 where he graduated with a double first in Geography in 1966 (MA 1970). He went on to the University of Chicago
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 where he gained an MA in Geography in 1968 and a Ph.D.
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 in 1973 under the supervision of Brian Berry
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Brian Joe Lobley Berry is a British-American human geographer. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas...

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On 1 October 1970 Phil joined the School of Geography in the University of Leeds
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 helping drive the new wave of quantitative geography in Britain with colleagues including Alan Wilson (who joined the department on the very same day). A prolific author of research papers and books on many aspects of human population problems, between 1992 and 2002 he was also co-ordinator of the ESRC/JISC Census of Population Programme.

Retiring from teaching in 2009, Phil's contribution to geography was marked with a symposium celebrating the lasting international impact his work has had. Although retired from teaching he remains extremely active in research.

In 1996 he was awarded the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society
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, was made a fellow of the British Academy
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 in 1998, a Commander of the British Empire in 2004, and in 2009 he was awarded the Victoria Medal
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  from the Royal Geographical Society
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