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Birger Poppel

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors PoppelBirger Poppel is Project Chief Emeritus of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland). He holds an MA in Economics. He served as Chief Statistician from 1989 to 2004 and since 2004 has been affiliated with Ilisimatusarfik. He has published primarily within areas reflecting his main research interests, which include living conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, most recently SLiCA: Arctic living conditions—Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Sami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula (2015), and the mixed economic, socioeconomic, and demographic developments of the Circumpolar North. He recently contributed to the Global Handbook of Quality of Life; Arctic Human Development Report II and Arctic Social Indicators (ASI II). He has been member of the Editorial Board of Social Indicator Research since 2004. E-mail: bipo@uni.gl
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Rhonda Phillips

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors PhillipsRhonda Phillips is Dean, Honors College, Purdue University in Indiana. She holds a PhD in city and regional planning; an MS in economics, Georgia Institute of Technology; and an MS in economic development, University of Southern Mississippi. Rhonda is committed to interdisciplinary learning experiences, combining teaching, research, and engagement opportunities. Her research focus includes community planning and development, and indicator and evaluation systems for monitoring progress towards community well-being, quality of life, and economic development revitalization goals. Rhonda is a two-time Fulbright recipient and was awarded the 2012 International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies’ Distinguished Research Fellow. She is author or editor of 18 books, including Introduction to Community Development, and serves as editor for the series, Community Development Research and Practice (Routledge) and Community Quality of Life and Well-being (Springer). She holds professional certification, AICP, from the American Institute of Certified Planners and has held faculty positions at Arizona State University and the University of Florida. Rhonda serves as the President of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS). E-mail: rphillips@purdue.edu
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Valerie Møller

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors MollerValerie Møller is Professor Emeritus of quality-of-life studies at Rhodes University, South Africa, holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Zürich), has held research positions at the universities of Zimbabwe (1970s), KwaZulu-Natal (1980s/90s), and Rhodes (1998 to date) in South Africa. She has published 200 plus articles on South African quality-of-life issues, including living conditions and national pride. With colleagues she developed the first survey instruments in the 1980s to measure perceptions of personal well-being among South Africans, a study that has been updated regularly. Select publications: Møller, V, Roberts, B. (2014). South Africa, Quality of Life. In: Michalos A. C. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Dordrecht, NL: Springer, pp. 6218–6223; Møller, V. (2013) South African quality of life trends over three decades, 1980–2010. Social Indicators Research 113(3), 915–940. E-mail: V.Moller@ru.ac.za
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Alex C. Michalos

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors Michalos Alex C. Michalos is Professor Emeritus in Political Science from the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago; he founded and edited Social Indicators Research from 1973 to 2013; won the Secretary of State’s Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research in Canadian Studies (1984) for writing his five-volume North American Social Report; and edited the 12-volume Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (2014). He is a Member of the Order of Canada and received the Gold Medal for Achievement in Research (2004) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (the Council’s highest honor). E-mail: michalos@brandonu.ca.
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Mohammed Meziane

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors MezianeMohammed Meziane is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oran 2, Algeria; MS, organizational psychology, San Diego State University, CA; EdD, United States International University, San Diego, CA. Research interests include motivation at work—organizational engagement; psychological contracts; quality of education in Algerian universities; and quality of life. He has held various leadership positions, including President of the Laboratory of Education and Development; President of the Scientific Council, Observatory of the Pedagogy Didactic, University of Oran 2. He has numerous publications in his areas of interest. E-mail: mezianeoran@yahoo.fr
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Lee W. McKnight

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors McKnightLee W. McKnight is Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an Associate Professor in the iSchool (The School of Information Studies), Syracuse University, New York. Prof. Lee is Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Wireless Grids Innovation Testbed (WiGiT) project and is recipient of the 2011 TACNY Award for Technology Project of Year. Lee is the inventor of edgeware, a new class of software for creating ad hoc overlay cloud-to-edge applications. Dr. McKnight’s research focuses on virtual markets and wireless grids, the global information economy, national and international technology policy, and Internet governance and policy. Professor McKnight’s five books on his ground-breaking research were in press during 2014–2015 at Imperial College Press/World Scientific Press, Singapore and London. Prof. McKnight received a PhD in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in 1981; and a BA magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1978. E-mail: lmcknigh@syr.edu
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Krishna Mazumdar

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors MazumdarKrishna Mazumdar is former Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute.
She obtained her MA and PhD (in Economics) from Calcutta University. She joined the Indian Statistical Institute in 1980. Since then, she has been actively engaged in research and teaching. She has published around 50 papers in different national and international journals. She authored five books and has participated in a number of national as well as international conferences. Professor Emeritus, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. E-mail: krishnamazumdar@ymail.com
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Mahar Mangahas

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors MangahasMahar Mangahas holds an MA from the University of the Philippines and a PhD in economics, University of Chicago. He was Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines, Vice-President for Research of the Development Academy of the Philippines, and UNICEF Consultant on Social Indicators for the Governments of Malaysia and Indonesia. In 1985, Mangahas cofounded and has since been president of Social Weather Stations (SWS) (www.sws.org.ph), the Philippines’ leading institute for quality-of-life monitoring, opinion polling, and social survey archiving. He has done research on rice economics, land reform, poverty, hunger, income inequality, quality-of-life, governance, and public opinion. Among his awards are the Helen Dinerman Award (2001), the highest award of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, for championing rights and freedoms of survey researchers in the Philippines, the University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service (2011), and the Distinguished Research Fellow Award of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (2014). Social Weather Stations, Quezon City 1101 Philippines. E-mail: mahar.mangahas@sws.org.ph
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Victor H. Mair

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors MairVictor H. Mair received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976. He also holds an MPhil degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. Professor Mair specializes in Buddhist popular literature as well as the vernacular tradition of Chinese fiction and the performing arts. Among his chief works in these fields are Tun-huang Popular Narratives (Cambridge University Press, 1983); Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis (University of Hawaii Press, 1988); and T’ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China (Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1989). He is a frequent contributor to Language Log and is the founder and editor of Sino-Platonic Papers. E-mail: vmair@sas.upenn.edu
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Kenneth C. Land

Estes-Sirgy About the Authors LandKenneth C. Land holds a PhD in sociology and mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, 1969. He did postdoctoral work in mathematical statistics at Columbia University in New York City and was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation for 3 years. He taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Texas, Austin before joining the Duke University Sociology Department as Chair (January 1986–August 1997) and John Franklin Crowell Professor (1990–2014). In July 2014, he became Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Duke Social Science Research Institute. His main research interests are contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. He was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1978), the Sociological Research Association (1981), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), the American Society of Criminology (2004), and, in 2014, was elected to the Southern Sociological Society Roll of Honor. He directs the Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI) Project, which produces periodic studies and annual reports on trends in the well-being of America’s children and youth. E-mail: kland@soc.duke.edu
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