Wolfgang Lutz is the Leader of the World Population Program. He joined IIASA in October 1985.

Professor Lutz holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (1983) and a second doctorate (Habilitation) from the University of Vienna.

He has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, population projection, and the interaction between population and environment. He has been conducting a series of in-depth studies on population-development-environment interactions in Mexico, several African countries, and Asia. He is the author of the series of world population projections produced at IIASA and has developed approaches for projecting education and human capital. He is also principal investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis funded by the Wellcome Trust with headquarters at the National University of Singapore. Professor Lutz is author and editor of 28 books and more than 150 refereed articles (including some in "Science" and "Nature"). He serves on the board of directors of the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya; the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany; and the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., USA.

Curriculum Vitae

Phone: +43 2236 807 294
Fax: +43 2236 71 313
Room: S-26
Email: lutz@iiasa.ac.at

Mail address:
World Population Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schlossplatz 1
A-2361 Laxenburg
Austria

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