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William Butz is an experienced economic demographer, survey director, statistical system administrator, science policy and non - profit administrator, and policy advisor. Now retired from full - time employment, he was from April 2011 to October 2013 a Senior Research Scientist with the World Population (POP) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) in Austria and Director of Coordination and Outreach at the Wittgenstein Centre for Population and Global Human Capital (a coll aboration between IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business), where he helped direct research applying tools of demography to challenges of human capital formation around the world. Previously, he was P resident/CEO of the Population Reference Bureau in Washington (2003 - 2011), Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation (2002 - 2003, 1970 - 1983), Senior Resident Consultant at the Futures Group (2002), Division Director for Social and Economic Sciences at the Na tional Science Foundation (1995 - 2001), and Associate Director for Demographic Programs at the U.S. Census Bureau (1983 - 1995). His undergraduate and graduate studies at Indiana University and the University of Chicago were in economics. His own research, published in more than 50 peer - reviewed articles, monographs and book chapters, has focused on economic and demographic aspects of poverty, fertility, mortality, nutrition, education, and scientific manpower in developing countries, the U.S. and Europe. H e directed survey projects in Guatemala and Malaysia, was a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine from 2002 to 2013, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.