Mag. Dr. Wolfgang LUTZ Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna; Director, World Population Program, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
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| 1980 | Magister (M.A.), Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
| 1981-1982 | Research Assistant, Population Studies Center/Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1982 | M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1983 | Ph.D. (with distinction), Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1983-1985 | Research Associate, Demographic Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer in Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
| 1984 | Visiting Scholar, World Fertility Survey, London |
| since 1984 | Employed at IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg |
| 1988 | Habilitation, Demography and Social Statistics, University of Vienna |
| since 1988 | Leader, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg |
| 1995-1998 | Research Director, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna |
| 1998-2001 | Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) |
| 1999-2004 | Scientific Coordinator, EU Observatory for the Social Situation, Demography and the Family |
| 2001-2002 | Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment |
| since 2002 | Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| 2007 | Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University |
| 2002-2009 | Deputy Chair, Board of Directors and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kairo |
| 2003-2008 | Member, Board of Directors (Kuratorium), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock |
| since 2008 | Full Professor of Social and Economic Statistics (part time), Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 2011 | Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) |
Mitgliedschaften
| Professorial Research Fellow, Oxford University | |
| Member, Committee on Population, US National Academy of Sciences | |
| Affiliated Professor, College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok | |
| Initiator and Principal Investigator, Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, National University, Singapore | |
| Member, Board of Directors, Population Reference Bureau, Washington D.C. | |
| Finish Academy of Sciences (SuomenTiedeseura), 2014 | |
| Leopoldina- German National Academy of Sciences as Full Member, 2013 | |
| Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2008 (2008 Corresponding Member, 2012 Full Member) | |
| Member, Board of Directors, Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Germany | |
| US National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Population, 2009 |
Publikationen
| 21 scientific books, 11 scientific monographs and booklets, 210 articles in scientific journals and chapters in refereed books and more than 100 book reviews, commentaries and other non-refereed scientific contributions. | |
| Selected publications: | |
| Lutz, W., W. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov: The coming acceleration of global population ageing. Nature 451: 716-719, 2008 | |
| Lutz, W.: Sola schola et sanitate: Human capital as the root cause and priority for international development? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364: 3031-3047, 2009 | |
| Lutz, W.: The demography of future global population aging: Indicators, uncertainty, and educational composition. Population and Development Review 35(2): 357-365, 2009 | |
| Lutz, W. and S. KC: Global human capital: Integrating education and population. Science 333: 587-592, 2011 | |
| Lutz, W.: Demographic metabolism: A predictive theory of socioeconomic change. Population and Development Review, 38(S1):283-301, 2013. |
Auszeichnungen
| European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant, 2008 | |
| Mattei Dogan Award of the IUSSP, 2009 | |
| Wittgenstein Award, 2010 |
