Demographics & Consumer Markets
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Dr Clint Laurent
Founder & Chief Executive Global Demographics
Advisor | Speaker
Dr Clint Laurent is a leading authority on global demographic change and interpreting its impact. He has been observing, analysing, forecasting and interpreting demographics for over 15 years and has developed substantial historical databases of the demographic and socio-economic profiles of economies of Asia -- including 31 provinces of China and down to 353 Prefectures - now expanded to 54 countries globally. Modeling techniques are used to forecast of the changing nature of populations, labour forces, households and their income and expenditure patterns right up to 2024. He heads the worldwide editorial operations for Global Demographics across London, Vienna, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing and a global network of over 600 contributors.
Dr Laurent makes customised presentations, conducts in-house briefings, writes tailored reports and advises on a range of business issues. He is a regular speaker at business summits and conferences around the world and makes special presentations to board members and moderates discussion at a global strategy meetings. Past engagements have included being a presenter at an industry association's large annual convention, speaking at numerous educational institutions and associations, including Monash University, Universitas 21, Australian Graduate School of Management, the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations, Pacific Asia Travel Association, Tourism Futures National Conference and the MasterCard Forum, to name a few. He speaks regularly to clients of Global Demographics who have retained the firm to advise them on market opportunities - these are commercial organisations from a full range of industries including FMCG, financial services based in Asia and the USA and Europe.
He founded Asian Demographics in 1997 and transformed the organisation into Global Demographics in 2006. He serves as the company's Chief Executive, based in New Zealand but spending over half of his time in Hong Kong and the Asia region. He was also the founder of Asia Studies, a high value analysis and reporting firm, now part of Wirthlin Worldwide, and of Asia Market Intelligence (AMI), a market research company now part of Synovate. He moved from United Kingdom to Hong Kong in 1976. He has a PhD in Marketing and Statistics from Bath University in the UK and has a Master's Degree in Commerce from Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand.