Trend Honours Gabriel Felbermayr as Man of the Year

"This time, the choice fell not on an entrepreneur or manager, but on a man of science, more precisely: economics. This choice seems all the more appropriate to us as politicians in Austria (but not only in this country) are finding it difficult to formulate clear, sustainable policies in view of the many economic challenges," says Trend editor-in-chief Andreas Weber in his editorial.

"WIFO Director Gabriel Felbermayr is cut from a different cloth. In the course of his three years at the top of Austria's most important economic research institute, he has developed into a kind of Hugo Portisch of economics. He gets to the heart of even the most difficult issues in easy-to-understand terms and creates pressure for reform with fundamentally plausible proposals," writes Weber.

This major portrait of Gabriel Felbermayr was compiled and written by Bernhard Ecker and Andreas Lampl.