Bill Butz

William Butz is a Senior Research Scholar with the World Population (POP) Program and Director of Coordination and Outreach at the Wittgenstein Centre for Population and Global Human Capital (a collaboration between IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business).

Previously since October 2003, he was president and chief executive officer of the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), based in Washington, D.C. Before joining PRB, he was senior economist at the RAND Corporation; associate director of the U.S. Census Bureau, where he was in charge of household surveys, international activities, and population estimates and projections, and division director for social and behavioral sciences at the National Science Foundation. His undergraduate and graduate educations were at Indiana University and the University of Chicago, respectively, where he studied economics, statistics, and demography.

Mr. Butz has taught economic development at UCLA and the University of California at Santa Barbara, served on numerous commissions and boards, and written more than 80 research and policy papers on a variety of topics related to economic demography, nutrition and health, and statistical and science policy. Since 2001, he has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, where his responsibilities include the social sciences, the Policy Forum, and the Education Forum.


Last update: 26-APR-2011