Thomas Austin Moultrie is a professor of demography, and director of the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His areas of expertise include the demography of Southern Africa, technical demography as applied to limited and defective data, vital registration systems, and some experience in epidemiological and virological modelling.
He is a member of the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS); the Population Association of America, and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). From 2014 to 2017, he served as the IUSSP Council Member for Africa. He has been an editor of Population Studies, a leading international journal since 2012, and holds a B2 rating from the South African National Research Foundation (2015).