Wolfgang Lutz is the IIASA Sherpa for Asia and a Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar at IIASA. He is the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a partnership between IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna. A leading academic in the field of population and sustainable development, Lutz was among the UN-appointed scientists who authored the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: The Future is Now. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Wittgenstein Prize, two ERC Advanced Grants, the Mattei Dogan Award (IUSSP), the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association, and the 2024 Yidan Prize for his contributions to the theory and practice of education. He is a member of several academies, including the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy Leopoldina, the US National Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences TWAS, the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. Lutz has authored over 300 scientific articles and book chapters, and wrote or edited 27 books and special issues on population forecasting, education as a standard demographic dimension, and population-development-environment interactions.
