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Richard Cincotta is a political demographer who conducts analyses for the U.S. intelligence and defense communities. His research focuses on the demographic transition and human migration and their relationship to civil conflict, political regimes, natural resource dynamics, and health. His publications on these topics appear in Foreign Policy, Nature, and Science. Dr. Cincotta contributed to the National Intelligence Council’s most recent global futuring exercise, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (2009), and to the Geneva Declaration Secretariat’s Global Burden of Armed Violence. He has worked abroad in both developed and developing regions for more than decade. He also served in the U.S. Navy in intelligence before pursuing graduate work.