Outlining Ways out of the COVID-19 Crisis

08.06.2020

WIFO General Assembly on 4 June 2020

On the occasion of the General Assembly of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research on 4 June 2020, WIFO President Harald Mahrer and his Vice Presidents Renate Anderl and Ingrid Kubin underlined WIFO's key role in coping with socioeconomic challenges in Austria. Especially in the COVID-19 crisis, sound data and analysis were needed.

"It is our fundamental conviction that social differences and diverging interests can be bridged by constant and consensus-oriented cooperation and dialogue in the interest of the common good. WIFO's independent and professionally undisputed expertise guarantees that this struggle for economic policy decisions can be based on a common factual basis", the Executive Board stated in the joint foreword to the current WIFO Annual Report.

At the General Assembly, the Executive Board was also re-elected:

Renate Anderl
President of the Chamber of Labour for Vienna and the Federal Chamber of Labour

Dr. Hannes Androsch

Kommerzialrat Peter Hanke
Executive City Councillor of Finance, Business, Digital Innovation and International Affairs

Professor Dr. Robert Holzmann
Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Wolfgang Katzian
President of the Austrian Trade Union Federation

Abg.z.NR Karlheinz Kopf
Secretary General of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

University Professor DDr. Ingrid Kubin
Head of the Institute for Foreign Trade and Development at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Maria Kubitschek
Deputy Director and Head of the "Economy" Division of the Chamber of Labour for Vienna

Dr. Harald Mahrer
President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Joseph Moosbrugger
President of the Austrian Chamber of Agriculture

Professor Dr. Ewald Nowotny
President of the Austrian Society for European Politics

Harald Waiglein
Head of Section in the Federal Ministry of Finance

Mag. Markus Wallner
Governor of Vorarlberg

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Markus Kiesenhofer, BA, MA

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