Wolfgang Lutz is the Interim Deputy Director General for Science at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a cooperation between the University of Vienna (where he is Professor at the Department of Demography), IIASA (where he was for 25 years Director of the World Population Program), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (where he was Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography).
He holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He received the Wittgenstein Prize, two ERC Advanced Grants, the Mattei Dogan award of IUSSP, and the Mindel C. Sheps Award of PAA and the Austrian Science Prize 2023. 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 Europea. He was appointed by the UN as co-author of the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019.
He has published over 280 scientific articles, including 24 in Science, Nature, and PNAS, and written or edited 27 books and special issues.