William Haller is originally from Madison, Wisconsin and is currently Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. He received his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 1999 where he worked on deindustrialization and racial differences in socioeconomic change. He served 4 years as a postdoc with Princeton University’s Office of Population Research and Center for Migration and Development, working first on migrant transnationalism and then on the integration and adaption of children of immigrants in the United States. In 2008 he helped launch the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation (ILSEG), a cross-nationally comparative replication of CILS in Spain. In 2021-2022 he was a US Fulbright Scholar at the Balsillie School of International Affairs carrying out comparative research on immigration, race, ethnicity in Canada, Spain, and the United States.

Dr. Desrochers is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where his work focuses on economic development, technological innovation, and the intersection between business and the environment, as well as energy and food policy. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Montreal and has published extensively across multiple academic fields. In addition to his academic work, he is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and an affiliate scholar with several other think tanks. Dr. Desrochers is also a prolific writer, having authored over 250 columns and op-eds featured in major international publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. He has published and co-authored several books, including Population Bombed!, which was shortlisted for the Donner Prize. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2017.