The College of Business and Economics recently hired the state’s first and only demographer, Dr. Christiadi, who will serve as a liaison with the U.S. Census Bureau on population estimates and projections. He will represent West Virginia in the Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates and a similar program for population projections. Employed by WVU’s College of Business and Economics in its Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Christiadi will analyze and disseminate his research based on U.S. Census Bureau’s data. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at WVU in 2005 and previously served as an economist for the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Christiadi specialized in urban-regional and labor demographic economics with a primary focus on migration.