Franz Manfred Wuketits (5 January 1955 – 6 June 2018) was an Austrian biologist, university teacher and epistemologist.

The Initiative is particularly well supported among Austria's relatively large Intellectual class, and includes among its financial backers the tobacco corporation BAT.

He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation which has as its mission "Support of Evolutionary Humanism".

[5][6] Other roles have included providing scientific input for the Kapfenberg (in Styria) Summer Academy till 2008 (which was the final year for the event).

He was on the editorial/advisory board of various other journals and publications (Biological Theory, Ludus Vitalis, La Nuova Critica, Universitas etc.).