Graeme Hugo

{{Short description|Australian demographer, academic, and geographer}}

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Graeme John Hugo {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (5 December 1946 – 20 January 2015) was an Australian demographer, academic, and geographer. Hugo, a professor of geography at University of Adelaide, was considered one of Australia's leading demographers.{{cite news|title=Graeme Hugo, distinguished demographer and academic, dies aged 68 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-20/graeme-hugo-demographer-and-academic-dies-aged-68/6028850 |work=ABC News and Current Affairs |date=2015-01-20 |access-date=2015-01-31}} He served as the director of the Australian Migration and Population Research Centre at the University of Adelaide. Some of his most recent studies focused on discrimination against job-seekers from non-English speaking families and backgrounds.{{cite news|first=Malcolm|last=Sutton|title=Youths from non-English speaking countries overlooked for Australian jobs despite training: report |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-05/non-english-speaking-youths-overlooked-for-australian-jobs/5649896 |work=ABC News and Current Affairs |date=2014-08-05 |access-date=2015-01-31}} He was elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1987.[http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/deceased/148 Professor Graeme Hugo AO] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210000736/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/deceased/148 |date=10 February 2015 }} - Deceased Fellows In 2012, Hugo was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for his work in population research.

Graeme Hugo died from a short illness on 20 January 2015, at the age of 68.