Richard Gisser (born 11 July 1939, in Vienna) is an Austrian demographer who held leading positions at his country's statistical office until his retirement.

[4] Since 2010, VID has been part of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital[5]---a research collaboration project whose other partners are IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) and WU/Vienna University of Economics and Business.

He is the long-time editor-in-chief of Statistische Nachrichten, the monthly bulletin of the Austrian statistical office, and has been on the editing boards of VID's Vienna Yearbook of Population Research[1] since 2003 and of Demografie/Prague[7] since 2013.

In the past decades, Gisser was a permanent delegate for the Austrian government at the European Population Committee of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (1977-2005).

[13] Gisser's main research topics are the historical demography of Austria, demographic and social statistics, trends and projections of population development as well as the resulting implications for policy measures.