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The Speakers Bureau is a directory of arctic researchers and experts that are available to visit organizations, communities or schools to give presentations. The directory contains names, addresses, science specialties, and presentation experience.
We encourage organizations and communities applying to the Arctic Visiting Speakers Series to use the Speakers Bureau to select a visiting speaker. If a particular subject or speaker is not listed, please contact Judy Fahnestock at avs [at] arcus [dot] org, for suggested speakers.
Timothy Heleniak
About:
Tim Heleniak is a member of the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, he worked with the World Bank, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the US Census Bureau. While at the World Bank, Heleniak was involved in a Russian project called the "Northern Restructuring Project," which is designed to assist the Russian government with out-migration and restructuring of selected regions in Siberia. Heleniak, along with four others, currently has a project funded by the National Science Foundation looking at forced and voluntary migration across the circumpolar region. He continues to consult with the World Bank on issues of migration and regional development in Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union, including contributing to a recent report titled "Migration and Remittances: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union."
Heleniak has spoken to a wide variety of audiences, including lectures at the Population Reference Bureau, the College of DuPage, the Geography Department Seminar Series at the University of Maryland, and in the Environmental Science and Policy Seminar Series at George Mason University. In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, Heleniak has also delivered a number of lectures to undergraduate students in a wide variety of departments at various schools.
Representative lecture titles include:
- "Migrations Trends in Siberia and the Russian North"
- "Post-Soviet Development in Siberia"
- "Why the Soviets put so many people in Siberia?"
- "Patterns of Migration Following the Breakup of the Soviet Union"
Heleniak is interested in sharing his knowledge and experience analyzing migration and development trends in the Russian north and also in visiting and learning about the experience of other northern communities.
