Raya Muttarak is Professor of Demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy. She also currently serve as a member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs (2025-2027). In 2021, she was the director of the Population and Just Societies Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Raya’s research interest is in the field of population, environment and sustainable development with a focus on differential vulnerability, adaptive capacity, human impact on the environment, migration and forecasting future demographic and socioeconomic trajectories. She is currently a principle investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project “Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change (POPCLIMA)” (2022-2026) which aims to assess the impact of climate change on fertility, mortality and migration and forecast future populations accounting for the climate feedback. Her services to the scientific community includes serving as Chair of the the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) scientific panel on “Population Dynamics under Global Conflict and Climate Change” (2023-2025) and Chair of the IUSSP Population-Environment Research Network in 2018-2020; Chief Editor of Population and Development Review from January 2022; an editorial board member of Population and Environment and Vienna Yearbook of Population Research; and reviewer of various funding agencies including ERC Starting Grant Panel Member (2023, 2025). She has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including research methods, population and health, migration and development and population and climate change and has organised various training workshops, as part of the outreach activities. Raya holds an MSc and DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford and pursued her postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Italy, winning first the Max Weber fellowship, followed by the Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellowship. Muttarak joined IIASA in September 2011, while also working as a research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)/Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011-2017). From 2017-2020, she was a senior lecturer in Geography and International Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.