Wolfgang Lutz

Wolfgang Lutz (born December 10, 1956) is an Austrian demographer specializing in demographic analysis and population projection. He founded the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital in 2011^[1] - a collaboration between IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), the Vienna Institute of Demography, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business. In October 1985 he joined IIASA to lead the World Population Program. He is the director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2002 as well as a Full Professor of Applied Statistics (part-time) at Vienna University since 2008. He also holds the position of Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School for 21st Century Studies.

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

Lutz has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, and population projection as well as the interaction between population and the environment. He has authored a series of world population projections produced at IIASA and developed approaches for projecting education and human capital. Lutz is also the principal investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis.^[2] 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,^[3] in 2009 the Mattei Dogan Award of the IUSSP,^[4] and in 2010 the Wittgenstein Prize,^[5] often referred to as "Austria's Nobel Prize".

Selected Publications

• Lutz, Wolfgang, ed. (1994). Population-Development-Environment. Understanding Their Interactions in Mauritius. Heidelberg: Springer Press. 

• Lutz, Wolfgang, ed. (1996). The Future Population of the World. What Can We Assume Today?. London: Earthscan. 

• Lutz, W.; Sanderson, S.; Scherbov, S. (1997). "Doubling of world population unlikely.". Nature 387 (6635): 803–805. doi:10.1038/42935. PMID 9194559. 

• O'Neill, B. J.; MacKellar, F. L.; Lutz, W. (2001). Population and Climate Change. Cambridge University. 

• Lutz, W.; Sanderson, S.; Scherbov, S. (2001). "The end of world population growth.". Nature 412 (6846): 543–545. doi:10.1038/35087589. 

• Lutz, W.; O'Neill, B. C.; Scherbov, S. (2003). "Europe's population at a turning point.". Science 299 (5615): 1991–1992. doi:10.1126/science.1080316. 

• Lutz, Wolfgang; Sanderson, Warren; Scherbov, Sergei, eds. (2004). The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development. London: Earthscan. 

• Lutz, W.; Kritzinger, S.; Skirbekk, V. (2006). "The demography of growing European identity". Science 314 (5798): 425. doi:10.1126/science.1128313. 

• Lutz, W.; Scherbov, S. (2008). "The coming acceleration of global population ageing.". Nature 451 (7179): 716–719. doi:10.1038/nature06516. 

• Lutz, W.; Cuaresma, C.; Sanderson, W. (2008). "The demography of educational attainment and economic growth.". Science 319 (5866): 1047–1048. doi:10.1126/science.1151753. 

• Lutz, W. (2009). "Sola schola et sanitate: Human capital as the root cause and priority for international development?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 (1532): 3031–3047. doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0156. 

• Lutz, W.; KC, S. (2010). "Dimensions of global population projections: What do we know about future population trends and structures?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 (1554): 2779–2791. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0133. 

• Lutz, W.; Cuaresma, C.; Abbasi-Shavazi, M. J. (2010). "Demography, education, and democracy: Global trends and the case of Iran.". Population and Development Review 36 (2): 253–281. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00329.x. 

• Lutz, W.; KC, S. (2011). "Global human capital: Integration education and population.". Science 333 (6042): 587–592. doi:10.1126/science.1206964. 

• Scherbov, S.; Lutz, W.; Sanderson, W. C. (2011). "The uncertain timing of reaching 8 billion, peak world population, and other demographic milestones.". Population and Development Review 37 (3): 571–578. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00435.x. 

• Pamuk, E. R.; Fuchs, R.; Lutz, W. (2011). "Comparing relative effects of education and economic resources on infant mortality in developing countries.". Population and Development Review 37 (4): 637–664. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00451.x. 

• Lutz, W. (2013). "Demographic metabolism: A predictive theory of socioeconomic change.". Population and Development Review 38: 283–301. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00564.x. 

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External links

• Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
• World Population Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
• Vienna Institute of Demography