Wolfgang Lutz
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Job Title: Director
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7703
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: wolfgang.lutz@oeaw.ac.at
Current positions
- Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (since 2002)
- Leader, World Population Program, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria. (Employed at IIASA since 1984, Deputy Program Leader under Nathan Keyfitz since 1988, Program Leader since 1994)
- Professor for Social and Economic Statistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Other current functions
- Initiator and Principal Investigator, Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis (funded by the Wellcome Trust as a regional Centre of Excellence under its «Health Consequences of Population Change” Programme) with headquarters at the National University of Singapore.
- Deputy Chair, Board of Directors, and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.
- Member, Board of Directors, Population Reference Bureau, Washington D.C., USA.
- Co-editor, Asian Population Studies, a high profile journal to be published for the first time in 2005 by Routledge, the same publisher as Population Studies.
- Editor, Earthscan scientific book series on Population and Sustainable Development, a new series starting in 2004.
- Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment (sponsored by the IUSSP, IIASA, and the United Nations University).
Education
- Studies in Philosophy, Mathematics and Theology at the University of Munich, Germany.
- Mag. rer. soc. oec. in Social and Economic Statistics at the University of Vienna (1980)
- Cand. theol. at the Faculty of Theology, University of Vienna.
- MA in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania, USA (1982)
- PhD (with distinction) in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania (1983)
- Habilitation (= second doctorate; right to teach and apply for a chair at the university) in Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Vienna. (1988)
Previous functions
- Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment (sponsored by the IUSSP, IIASA, and the United Nations University) (2001-2002)
- Scientific Coordinator, EU Observatory for the Social Situation, Demography and the Family, an official body of the European Commission (1999-2004)
- Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). (1998-2001)
- Adjunct Professor in Demography and Social Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria. (since 1988)
- Research Director, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna (1995-1998)
- Visiting Scholar at the World Fertility Survey in London. (1984)
- Research Associate, Demographic Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer in Social and Economic Statistics at the University of Vienna. (1983-85)
- Research assistant at the Population Studies Center/Graduate Group in Demography of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. (1981-82)
- Visiting scholar at the Demographic Department of the Finnish Central Statistical Office in Helsinki. (1980-81)
Research Interests
- World population trends
- Population forecasting
- Consequences of ageing in Europe
- Fertility and Family demography
- Population and environment
Projects
- Interaction of Population and Environment on Easter Island
- Social Status and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off of Children
- Gender Differences in Family Formation
- Distributional Aspects in Fertility Analysis
Selected Publications
- Lutz, W., J. Crespo Cuaresma, and W. Sanderson. 2008. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. Science 319: 1047-1048.
- Lutz, W., W. Sanderson, and S. Scherbov. 2008. The coming acceleration of global population ageing. Nature 451: 716-719.
- Prskawetz, A., D.E. Bloom, and W. Lutz, Eds. 2008. Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth. Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 34, 2008. New York: Population Council.
- Lutz, W., A. Goujon, and A. Wils. 2008. The population dynamics of human capital accumulation. Pages 149-187 in A. Prskawetz, D.E. Bloom, and W. Lutz (eds.), Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth. Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 34, 2008. New York: Population Council.
- Bloom, D.E., W. Lutz, and A. Prskawetz. 2008. Introduction. Pages 3-14 in A. Prskawetz, D.E. Bloom, and W. Lutz (eds.), Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth. Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 34, 2008. New York: The Population Council.
- Lutz, W., S. Kritzinger, and V. Skirbekk. 2006. The demography of growing European identity. Science 314: 425.
- Wolfgang Lutz and Joshua Goldstein. 2004. How to Deal with Uncertainty in Population Forecasting? Guest Editors. Special issue of International Statistical Review 72(1&2): 1-106, 157-208
- Wolfgang Lutz, Warren C. Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov. 2004. The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development. London: Earthscan.
- Goldstein, J., W. Lutz, and S. Scherbov. 2003. Long-term population decline in Europe: The relative importance of tempo effects and generational length. Population and Development Review 29(4): 699-707.
- Lutz, Wolfgang, Brian C. O’Neill, and Sergei Scherbov. 2003. Europe’s Population at a Turning Point. Science 299: 1991-1992, 28 March 2003.
- Lutz, Wolfgang, Alexia Prskawetz, and Warren C. Sanderson. Eds. 2002. Population and Environment. Methods of Analysis. Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 28. New York: Population Council.
- Lutz, Wolfgang, Warren C. Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov. 1997. Doubling of world population unlikely. Nature 387: 803-805, 19 June 1997.
- Lutz, Wolfgang. Ed. 1994. The Future Population of the World. What Can We Assume Today? London: Earthscan.
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