In memoriam: Graeme John Hugo AO, FASSA, PhD (ANU) 1946-2015

Abstract

On 20 January 2015 Graeme Hugo, University Professorial Fellow and Professor of Geography at the University of Adelaide, died shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. Professor Hugo was in full stride when his life was prematurely terminated. He was a prodigious writer (over 500 peer reviewed publications), presenter at conferences and meetings (more than 1,000 presentations), and supervisor of postgraduate students (110 completed master’s and PhD supervisions, with 19 PhD students and 2 master’s students under supervision at the time of his death). In addition, his CV lists more than 120 reports for government agencies in Australia, international agencies, and overseas governments. 1 In July 2014 Graeme was presented with the Institute of Australian Geographers’ (IAG) Australia-International Medal “in recognition of his outstanding contribution, as an Australian geographer, to the advancement of geography world-wide”. Two years earlier he had been awarded the civil honour of Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of his “distinguished service to population research, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organisations.” In 2009, in a survey of members of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), he was voted by his peers as the 34th ranked demographer of all time for the quality of his work.