Magali Barbieri received her PhD in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. She currently holds a joint research position at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she leads the Human Mortality Database (HMD, http://www.mortality.org) and United States Mortality (usa.mortality.org) and Fertility Database projects. Magali has maintained an active research career, publishing articles in top demography and other internationally ranked journals (for a list of publications, see http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/directories/profiles/barbiericv.pdf). Her main areas of interest are geographic and international differences in mortality in high-income countries in general and in the United States and France in particular, with a special focus on medical causes of death.