World Population, Female Education, and Sustainable Development
- 02 March 2011 Wolfgang Lutz
MEDIA
Professor Lutz explains the importance of female education in lowering fertility rates and child mortality in developing countries.
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About the speaker
Wolfgang Lutz is Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (a new collaboration between IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business). He joined IIASA in October 1985 where he is leader of the World Population Program. Since 2002 he has also been the director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2008 Professor of Applied Statistics (part time) at the WU. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School for 21st Century Studies.
Professor Lutz studied philosophy, theology, mathematics and statistics at the Universities of Munich, Vienna and Helsinki and holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (1983) and a second doctorate (Habilitation) in Statistics from the University of Vienna.
He has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, population projection, and the interaction between population and environment. He has conducted 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 a principal investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis. Lutz is author and editor of 28 books and more than 200 refereed articles, including seven in "Science" and "Nature". In 2008 he received an ERC Advanced Grant, in 2009 the Mattei Dogan Award of the IUSSP and in 2010 the Wittgenstein Prize, the highest Austrian science award.