Education:
MA in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania, USA (1982)
PhD (with distinction) in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania (1983)
Habilitation (= second doctorate; right to teach and apply for a chair at the university) in Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Vienna. (1988)
Prior Work:
- Deputy Chair, Board of Directors, and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya. (2002-2009)
- Member, Board of Directors (Kuratorium), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. (2003-2008)
- Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University (2007)
- Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment (sponsored by the IUSSP, IIASA, and the United Nations University) (2001-2002)
- Scientific Coordinator, EU Observatory for the Social Situation, Demography and the Family, an official body of the European Commission (1999-2004)
- Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). (1998-2001)
- Adjunct Professor in Demography and Social Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria. (since 1988)
- Research Director, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna (1995-1998)
Current Position/Responsibilities:
- Founder and Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, (founded 2011, based on the Wittgenstein Prize 2010 and created as a collaboration between IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).
- Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (since 2002)
- Leader, World Population Program, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria. (Employed at IIASA since 1984, Deputy Program Leader under Nathan Keyfitz since 1988, Program Leader since 1994)
- Professor for Social and Economic Statistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Areas of Research Interest:
- Population projections
- Development of the world population
- Comparative European demography
- Development of education and human capital
- Future development of fertility
- Interaction between population and environment