WIFO's Economic Policy Advisory Board
The Economic Policy Advisory Board supports the Institute in fulfilling its objectives. These consist of analysing the conditions and trends of Austria's economic development with scientific objectivity, disseminating the results of its research to the public whilst taking the common good into account, and promoting an understanding of economic interrelationships.
By virtue of their prominent positions in the business sector or economic administration, the members of the Economic Policy Advisory Board are well placed to enrich and promote WIFO's academic work to a particular degree, to provide appropriate impetus and to act as WIFO's ambassadors in the public sphere.
List of members
Mag. Silvia Angelo
Member of the Executive Board of ÖBB-Infrastruktur AGDr Andreas Brandstetter
Chairman of the Board of UNIQA Insurance Group AGDipl.-Ing. Andrea Faast
Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Head of the "Location and Infrastructure Policy" DepartmentDipl.-Ing. Johannes Fankhauser
Head of Section II at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and TourismGünther Goach
President of the Carinthian Chamber of LabourMarcus Grausam
CTO/CEO of A1 Telekom Austria AGMag. Erwin Hameseder
Chairman of Raiffeisen-Holding NÖ-Wien reg.Gen.mbHChairman of the Supervisory Board of Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Peter Haubner, Member of the National Council
Association lawyer and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Österreichische Genossenschaftsverband (Schulze-Delitzsch)Mag. Alexander Herzog
Secretary-General of PHARMIG – Verband der pharmazeutischen Industrie ÖsterreichsGerhard K. Humpeler, lic.oec. HSG
Head of Finance at Julius Blum GmbHDr Robert Leitner, MBA
Head of the "Economic Policy and Foreign Trade" Department at the Upper Austrian Chamber of CommerceMag. Johannes Mayer
Head of the “Economics” Department at Energie-Control AustriaMag.a Johanna Mikl-Leitner
Governor of Lower AustriaMag. Dr. Helmut Naumann
Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Head of the "Economic Policy" DepartmentMag. Christoph Neumayer
Secretary-General of the Federation of Austrian IndustriesMMag. Peter J. Oswald
Chairman of the Board and CEO of Mayr-Melnhof Karton AGDr Ranja Reda Kouba
Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud GermanyDr Johannes Rehulka
Secretary-General of the Austrian Raiffeisen AssociationDipl.-Ing. Walter Ruck
President of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (until 30 July 2026)Agricultural Councillor Hermann Schultes
President of the Austrian Chamber of Agriculture (until 3 December 2018)President of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture (until 3 December 2018)
Mag. Tobias Schweitzer
Head of the Economic Division at the Vienna Chamber of LabourMag. Reinhard Schwendtbauer
CFO of Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper AustriaAndreas Stangl
President of the Upper Austrian Chamber of LabourDipl.-Ing. Mag. Michael Strebl
Chairman of the Executive Board Wien Energie GmbHDr Michael Strugl, MBA
Chairman of the Executive Board of Verbund AGMMag. (FH) Barbara Thaler
President of the Tyrol Chamber of CommerceMag. Andreas Treichl
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ERSTE FoundationPresident of DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung