Wolfgang Lutz
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Wolfgang Lutz (born 10 December 1956) is an Austrian demographer specializing in demographic analysis, population projections, as well as population and sustainable development. He is the current Interim Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), as well as the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital – a collaboration between IIASA, the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna. In the latter, he also established the new Department of Demography.
Wolfgang Lutz | |
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Born | 10 December 1956 (1956-12-10) (age 67) |
Citizenship | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (1982, 1983) University of Vienna (1988) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Demographic analysis Population projection Family demography Population-Environment Interaction |
Institutions | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Vienna Institute of Demography Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital |
In October 1985 he joined IIASA to lead the institute’s former World Population Program. He has been director of VID since 2002 as well as a full professor of demography (part-time) at the University of Vienna. He is also adjunct professor at Shanghai University, where he chairs the international scientific advisory board of the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI).