Margit Schratzenstaller is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group "Macroeconomics and European
Economic Policy" since 2003; she was Deputy Director of WIFO from 2006 to 2008 and 2015 to 2019. Margit Schratzenstaller is
member of the Austrian Fiscal Council and the board of ÖGfE – the Austrian Society for European Politics as well as member
of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Climate Council, member of the board of trustees of the European Forum Alpbach
and the KDZ – Centre for Administrative Research. Her areas of expertise include (European) tax and budget policy, EU budget,
tax competition and harmonisation, fiscal federalism as well as family policy and gender budgeting. She was deputy coordinator
of the FP7 EU project WWWforEurope (2012-2016) and partner in the H2020 EU project FairTax (2015-2019) and she has prepared
studies for the European Parliament and the European Commission as well as national clients. After studying economics at the
Universities of Gießen (Dipl.-Oec., doctorate) and Milwaukee (MA (Econ)), she was a post-doc at the DFG-funded Research Training
Group "Future of the European Social Model" at the University of Göttingen. She spent research stays at the German Institute
for Economic Research Berlin, the Free University Berlin and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. The prizes she has been
awarded include Women's Prize of the City of Vienna (2009), the Progressive Economy Prize of the European Parliament (2016),
the VCÖ Mobility Prize (2017) and the Kurt-Rothschild Prize (2018).
