Wolfgang Lutz
Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
IIASA Sherpa for Asia
Directorate - DG Department
Biography
Wolfgang Lutz is the IIASA Sherpa for Asia and holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar at IIASA. In addition to the numerous roles he has held at IIASA over the years, among which were Acting Director General, Interim Deputy Director General for Science, and Program Director, Lutz is the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a cooperation between IIASA, the University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.He is a leading academic in the field of population and sustainable development and was one of the scientists appointed by the UN to write the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 titled, The Future is Now. He has won numerous prestigious awards including the Wittgenstein Prize, two European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants, the Mattei Dogan award of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association, and most recently, the 2024 Yidan Prize, which recognizes individuals or teams who have contributed significantly to the theory and practice of education. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy Leopoldina, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. He also serves as special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Dubravka Suica.
Lutz has published more than 300 scientific articles and chapters in refereed books, including 24 in Science, Nature, and PNAS, and wrote or edited 27 books and special issues on international population trends with a special focus on population forecasting, population-development-environment interactions, and on introducing education as a standard demographic dimension in addition to age and sex. He holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Last update: 28 NOV 2024
Publications
Adhikari, S., Lutz, W. , & Kebede, E. (2024). Forecasting Africa’s fertility decline by female education groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (46) e2320247121. 10.1073/pnas.2320247121.
Marois, G. , Gietel-Basten, S., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Zellmann, J.G., Reiter, C. , & Lutz, W. (2024). Measuring Human Capital with Productivity-Weighted Labor Force: Methodology and Projections for China, India, the United States, and the European Union. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-005
K.C., S., Dhakad, M., Potančoková, M. , Adhikari, S., Yildiz, D. , Mamolo, M., Sobotka, T., Zeman, K., Abel, G. , Lutz, W. , & Goujon, A. (2024). Updating the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) Global Population and Human Capital Projections. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-24-003
Lutz, W. (2024). Overshooting global warming and overshooting fertility decline. Beyond the smooth stabilization paradigm. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 22 1-8. 10.1553/p-35m2-3ce3.
Lutz, W. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, contributing to the post-2030 Global Agenda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 10.5281/zenodo.8214208.