Andrew Ramlo

Andrew Ramlo

Demographer, Urbanist & Planning Consultant

Andrew Ramlo is a prominent demographer, urbanist, and planning consultant.  As director of Urban Futures Inc., Andrew carried out strategic management assignments for a wide range of private and public sector clients.  In Andrew's talks, he easily explains the dimensions and character of change to demographics, the economy, society and the environment.  Whether it is the ever-changing consumer base and what tomorrow's customer looks like, or dissecting the changes expected in the workplace when the baby boomers retire and how it is opening opportunities for business and employment in the world, Andrew addresses the challenges of change and what the new reality looks like for labour, pensions, healthcare, the urban landscape and regional economy.


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Andrew Ramlo is a prominent demographer, urbanist, and planning consultant. As director of Urban Futures Inc., Andrew carried out strategic management assignments for a wide range of private and public sector clients.  Andrew has worked with many of Canada’s leading developers, investors, and retailers as well as public sector clients, including many of Canada’s most rapidly changing municipalities, public agencies and crown corporations.  In working with such a broad range of clients, Andrew has recently been named one of Business in Vancouver's "Top Forty Under 40".

In Andrew's talks, he easily explains the dimensions and character of change to demographics, the economy, society and the environment.  Whether it is the ever-changing consumer base and what tomorrow's customer looks like, or dissecting the changes expected in the workplace when the baby boomers retire and how it is opening opportunities for business and employment in the world, Andrew addresses the challenges of change and what the new reality looks like for labour, pensions, healthcare, the urban landscape and regional economy.

As a respected authority in his field, Andrew is also contributing author to over 40 of the Urban Futures Institute’s research reports and participated in many of its public presentations. Research topics of note include: The Context for Change: Demographics, Life Cycles, Economics, and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia Over the Next Four Decades, Changing People, Changing Participation: Demographic and Behavioural Trends as a Context for the Future of the Canada Pension Plan, 2001 to 2051 and A Decade of Jobs and Pay in Canada: A Perspective on Canada's National and Regional Economies.

Andrew is a member of the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) and has formerly held a position on PIBC Council. He has organized and taught courses for both UBC and Simon Fraser University (SFU), in addition to providing ongoing workshops and seminars for programs at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and SFU’s City Program

For more information on Andrew's work at Urban Futures, click here.

  • Life Cycles and Lifestyles: Strategies For Reaching Consumers

    Is the age of mass marketing over? In this talk, Andrew Ramlo explains the dimensions of an evolving consumer base and the ways to market for tomorrow's consumer. He explains how and why consumers are fragmenting into niches that seek individualized products and services. In a fragmenting market, it's not enough to know about broad demographic changes; to succeed you will need to focus on the demographic, lifecycle and lifestyle shifts within your target markets. This keynote can be customized to suit the needs of each audience.

  • The Future of Labour Supply: Where the Jobs Are

    In the coming decades, Canada's population born between 1946 and 1965 will age into the third - and final - stage of their lifecycle. Employers now face the difficult challenge of managing labour supply issues - where will new employees come from, what will their needs be and how slowly will the labour force grow? In this talk, Andrew explores the potential opportunities that will arise with this demographic shift, in a world increasingly characterized by change. With product and business lifecycles shortening, the range of jobs (and careers) that the next generation of workers can choose from will continue to grow. Even within a particular job or career path, the increase of social, cultural and economic diversity will require the next generation to have a growing range of skills to adapt to this new demographic and economic paradigm.

  • Workers and Workplaces of the Future

    There will be an abundance of work in the future, in both the traditional and the new economies. But without big changes in productivity, participation and immigration, we'll be faced with accommodating both an aging population and a shrinking workforce. Organizations will continue to struggle to identify ways to strategically recruit and retain qualified workers. What will be different in the future will be the nature of work, the skills workers require, and the places they work in. Each employer will be forced to find creative ways to adapt. Ramlo helps audiences better understand these seismic changes, with a customized keynote that helps you prepare for the challenges of this changing economic and demographic landscape.