Dr. Aravind pandey is Reader, Department of Mathematical Demography & Statistics, International Institute for Population Science, Bombay. He has been teaching Mathematical Demography, Techniques of Facility Analysis, Population, Projection, Evaluation of Family Planning Programmes and Biostatistics. His area of interest covers modeling human reproduction process in general and birth intervals in particular. He was written more than 50 papers which are published in Indian and Foreign Journals of repute. Dr. Pandey has been honoured with young Scientist Award of the Indian Science Congress Association at Lucknow and the Malviya Memorial Foundation Award of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, in the year 1985 for his original work on Birth Interval Analysis. He has been a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the Department of Biostatistics and Carolina Population Centre, University of North Carolina, Chapel hill, U.S.A. during 1986-1988. Dr. Pandey has been continuously involved in bringing out such collaborative monographs.