Martin Spielauer is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group "Labour Market, Income and Social
Security" since 2016. His main research interest and competence is the development of simulation models for the study of transfer-
and social insurance systems in the context of demographic change. In the EC-funded project Weltransim he leads the development
of the multi-country microsimulation model microWELT for the comparative analysis of welfare state regimes. In a cross-border
collaboration he supports the implementation of the Slovenian pension microsimulation model DypenSi. As consultant of the
World Bank he is the lead developer of Dynamis-Pop, a portable model for population, education and health applications in
developing countries. Martin Spielauer has a strong international background which includes 9 years at Statistics Canada's
Socio-Economic Modelling Division and 3 years at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He obtained his PhD in
Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Vienna. Before that he held research positions at the International Institute
for Applied Systems Analysis, the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, and the TU ien. He has been sharing his expertise
in countless visiting positions, lecturing roles and consultancies around the globe and published in academic journals as
well as in reports of government agencies and international organisations.
