Landis MacKellar
IIASA
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Landis MacKellar is an economist specializing in economic demography. His research has covered population and development, population and the environment and, most recently, the economics of population aging. Since 1998, he has been leader of IIASA's Social Security Reform Project.
Dr. MacKellar holds M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an M.Sc from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Prior to joining IIASA in 1994, he worked for the International Labour Organization in Geneva and Africa and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Queens College of the City University of New York and an economist at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates.
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The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.