Wolfgang Lutz is Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. A collaboration between the Department of Demography of the University of Vienna, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/OeAW). He joined IIASA in October 1985, where he is Senior Program Advisor of the Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) and Acting Research Group Leader of the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group. From 1992 to 2020 Wolfgang Lutz was Program Director of the World Population (POP) Program at IIASA. In 2002 he became Director of VID. He retired from the directorship in 2022. Since 2008 Wolfgang Lutz has also been Full Professor: first at the WU Vienna and since October 2019 at the University of Vienna. He is also Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School for 21st Century Studies. In 2016, before leaving office, former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Wolfgang Lutz to be one of 15 independent scientists to draft a report on sustainable development ahead of a global review set for 2019.
