Dowell Myers Announced as Keynote Speaker for the 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop

The 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop, “Revisiting the Intergenerational Contract,” will feature noted professor and author Dowell Myers, Ph.D., as keynote speaker. Dowell Myers is professor and director of the Population Dynamics Research Group at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Professor Myers has focused on immigration throughout his career, authoring the 2007 book Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America and focusing recent research on public narratives about immigration, aging, and taxation; projections of generational change in the U.S., California, and Los Angeles; and the upward mobility of immigrants in the United States. 

Professor Myers’s keynote will address how the established social contract in California is giving way under forces of slower population growth, stable integration of immigrants, rapid decline in fertility, and a growing retirement-age population. These new population growth realities of the 21st century encourage an emergency social contract that can promise benefits for all in the decades ahead. Embracing the demographic changes through intergenerational “lifecycle sharing” can contribute to California’s future economic success. 

Register today for SCAG’s 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop to gather with local leaders, elected officials, and regional demographic experts to discuss planning policy that responds to changing trends. Expert insights at the 2025 Southern California Demographic Workshop will include region-specific details from American Community Survey data and other demographic signals crucial to informed and effective planning decisions.