Abul Rizvi is a retired academic living in Australia’s national capital, Canberra. He’s an expert in population ageing. But more than this, he is a hands-on practitioner, having actively managed Australia’s migration program between 1995-2007.

To say he knows a thing or two about population is an understatement.

Happily for the rest of us, he has distilled his nearly 30 years of experience and research into an 80-page volume, Population Shock.

There’s a lot of talk about the ingredients of a long and productive life. In fact, you’d think we were writing the rules for current generations to follow for health and happiness.

This is arrogant rubbish

Maybe it’s his somewhat contradictory CV – a mix of venture capital and socially progressive think tank experience – that now allows him to connect the dots, for the benefit of others, in a super interesting way