Jacques Poot is the Emeritus Professor of Population Economics at Te Ngira Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato, New Zealand, since 2018. He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Accounting, Finance, and Economics at the same university.

Before joining the University of Waikato in 2004, Jacques held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington—where he obtained his PhD in 1984—the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has also held visiting appointments at institutions such as the Australian National University, the East-West Center in Honolulu, and the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

Jacques is a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists, an elected Fellow of several international scientific organizations and recipient of the 2013 NZIER Economics Award. He has been a principal investigator in several large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects in both Europe and New Zealand. His research spans international and internal migration, the economics of cultural diversity, local labour markets, regional development, housing markets, and forecasting. He has also contributed to the advancement of methodologies for meta-analysis in social and economic impact assessment.

Jacques remains actively engaged in research at the intersection of economics, demography, and regional science, contributing to both academic scholarship and the evidence base for policy development.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2009.