Laurent Martel is a demography expert at Statistics Canada. He has a Master's degree in demography from the University of Montreal as well as advanced studies in economic demography from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He has been with Statistics Canada since 1997 and he is responsible for many statistical programs related to demography such as population projections as well as demographic analysis related to the census. He is also the current president of the Association internationale des démographes de langue française (AIDELF).