Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Development
Economics and Finance
Energy
Environment
Family
Food
Habitat
Industrial Development
Migration
Peace and Security
Population
Science and Technology
Statistics
Sustainable Development
United Nations Funding
Water
Social Development:
Aging
Poverty
Social policy
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
Climate change
Consumption and production patterns
Demographics
Disaster management and vulnerability
Energy
Forests
Freshwater
Health
Human settlements
Information for decision-making and participation
Institutional arrangements
Integrated decision-making
Land management
Marine Resources
Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Science
Sustainable development for Africa
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1995 |
| Organizational structure: |
IIASA is an international, independent, not-for-profit, research organization supported by a consortium of National Member Organizations (NMOs)in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe & Oceania. NMOs are organizations that must be representative of the scientific community of a country and be able to meet the financial obligations of membership. Comprised of NMO delegates, the governing body of the Institute is the IIASA Council who set the broad research themes. The Council is supported by an external international Scientific Advisory Committee. Appointed by the Council, the CEO of the Institute is the IIASA Director General and Chief Executive Officer (Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat)with a Deputy Director General/Deputy CEO (Professor Nebojsa Nakicenovic) supported by an Internal Research Committee comprised of IIASA senior scientists, and a Management Support Team. Since 2011, IIASA's research addresses three global problem areas: Energy and Climate change; Food and Water; and Poverty and Equity. Within these areas are Programs that define the major research activities. These are relatively stable designations and comprise the research topics for which IIASA is known: energy, climate change, forestry, land-use, population, technology, air pollution, risk, methodology development, etc. Each Program is led by a senior scholar reporting to the Director. There are also six administrative support departments, e.g., Human Resources, Sponsored Research, Finance, Communications, Library, and Information Technology, whose Heads also report to the Director. In 2016, 348 researchers from 50 countries worked at IIASA, 2,229 collaborators visited the institute, and around 25% of alumni were actively involved in its work.Together, they made up a global network of over 3,500 scholars and over 720 partner institutions. |
| Number and type of members: |
Twenty four countries, representing over 63 % of the world’s population and 71 % of the world’s economy, are members of IIASA. Countries are represented by their National Member Organizations which are part of the IIASA governing council and provide or facilitate the core funding of the institute. IIASA's National Member Organizations are: Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Austria: The Austrian Academy of Sciences; Brazil: The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES); China: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Egypt: The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT); Finland: The Finnish Committee for IIASA; Germany: The Association for the Advancement of IIASA; India (Observer): The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC); Indonesia: Indonesian National Committee for IIASA, Iran: Iran National Science Foundation (INSF), Japan: The Japan Committee for IIASA; Malaysia: Academy of Sciences Malysia (ASM); The Netherlands: The Netherlands Organization for Science Research (NWO); Norway: The Research Council of Norway (RCN); Pakistan (Observer): The Pakistan Academy of Sciences; Republic of Korea: National Research Foundation of Korea; Russia: The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); South Africa: The National Research Foundation (NRF); Sweden: The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS); Ukraine: The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences; UK: Research Councils of the UK, USA: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Vietnam: Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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