Univ. Prof. Dr. Mag. Brigitte Unger
Business address Prof. dr. Brigitte Unger Utrecht University School of Economics Utrecht University Kriekenpitplein 21-22 3584 EC Utrecht The Netherlands Phone: +31-30-2539800 E-mail: [email protected] Home page: http://www2.econ.uu.nl/users/unger/ Foto: R. Rozenburg
CURRICULUM VITAE (last update: 24th of April 2017)
Date and Place of Birth: 27th of October 1955, Güssing, Burgenland, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Education and Degrees: 1973 - 1975 Academy of Music, Vienna, (Musikhochschule Wien) Studies of Music, Opera-singing and Recorder, Soprano Singer at the Arnold Schönberg Choir
1975 - 1977 Sorbonne, Paris, Studies of French and French Literature
1977 - 1981 University of Vienna (Universität Wien), Parallel Studies of Interpreter of French and Russian and of Economics. Diploma work on the role of expectations in Keynes’ General Theory on Employment, Interest and Money. Masters of Social and Economic Sciences (Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Supervisor Prof. G. Winckler)
1982 - 1984 Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics, Vienna, Postgraduate Studies of Economics and Econometrics (seminar papers with Richard Marston and Paul Davidson). Terminal Paper on a Simultaneous Disequilibrium Model of Financing Public Deficits
1984 - 1987 Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), PhD (Doktor der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Supervisor Prof. E. Nowotny) on the Effects of Financing Public Debts and Deficits
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May 1998 Habilitation on Room for Manoeuvre: Choices Left for National Economic Policy, Associate Professor of Economic Theory and Policy, full time tenure at the Wirtschaftsuniversität, chair Prof. E. Nowotny
Oct 1998 Appointment as University Professor of Economics (a.o. Univ. Prof.)
Sept 2002 Appointment as a Full University Professor of Economics, Utrecht University
Areas of Specialization Public Sector Economics and Finance, Institutional Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Policy, International Monetary Economics, Tax Evasion and Money Laundering.
Language Qualification Fluent in German, French, Dutch and English. Basic working knowledge in Spanish and Italian. Some reading knowledge in Russian and Latin.
Job Experiences and Consultancy Jan - Apr 1982 Staff economist at the Girozentrale (Austrian Clearing Bank), Establishing a Country Rating System and Monitoring Debt Problems in Eastern European and Developing Countries
Jun - Sept 1982 Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Department of System and Decision Sciences, Laxenburg, Austria
1984 - 1998 University Assistant Lecturer and later Assistant professor (Assistenzprofessor) at the Institute of Economics, Department of Public Sector Economics and Finance, Professor Ewald Nowotny, Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna
Fall 1987 Fellowship for Salzburg Seminar on Third World Debt (Prof. Rudiger Dornbusch and Prof. Eliana Cardoso)
1989 - 1990 Harvard University, US, Center for European Studies, as a Joseph Schumpeter und Fulbright fellow. Co-organizer of the Euro- seminars at Harvard University
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Summer 1990 Summer School of the European Economic Association (EEA), in Lisbon (Prof. Nickel und Rebelo)
1990 - 1991 Stanford University, Center for European Studies, as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow
Dec 1992 Stanford University, Center for European Studies (Prof. Schmitter)
Summer 1992 University of Constance, Germany, Faculty of Public Administration (Prof. Keller and Prof. Lehmbruch)
Dec 1993 Stanford University, Center for European Studies (Prof. Josling)
Dec 1994 - Jun 1995 Stanford University, Center for European Studies, Dr. Maria Schaumayer Habilitation fellowship
Aug 1997 European University Institute Florence, Badia, Florence, Italy (Prof. Schmitter)
1998 - 1999 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, Netherlands (project team member in the interdisciplinary group on National Systems of Innovation and the Idea Innovation Chain)
Oct 1999 - Mar 2000 Interim Head of the Department of Public Sector Economics and Finance
1998 - 2002 University Professor of Economics at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna (ausserordentliche Universitätsprofessorin)
2002 – present University Professor of Public Sector Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics
May – Sept 2003 European University Institute Florence, Badia, Florence, Italy (Prof. Rhodes)
Aug 2004 Australian National University, Center for Tax System Integrity (Prof. Braithwaite)
2007 - 2011 Member of the Raad voor Financiële Verhoudingen, (Council for Fiscal Federal Relationships), Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs
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2008 - present Member of the EU Working Subgroup on Collecting Statistical Indicators for Money Laundering, DG JLS, Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission, since 2010 DG Home Affaires
Jun 2008 Nomination into the Adviesraad voor de Financiering van Jeugdzorg (AFJ) (Advisory Council of Financing Youth Care) for the Dutch Minister of Youth and Family.
Jul – Oct 2008 Consultant of the UNODC in Vienna, on money laundering flows from and to Afghanistan
2009 - present Member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on Regional Transnational Hubs (Doug Mc Kinnon), First meeting 1st of May 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand
Oct 2009 – present Member of the EU Working Group on Asset Confiscation, DG JLS, Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission, since 2010 DG Home Affaires
2010 and 2016 Advisor of the US Government on Illicit Financial Flows and Hubs Feb 2010 Member of Committee for VENI Proposal Selection in Economics and Business Administration for The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Sept 2010 – present Member of the Advisory Board of the UNODC on Measuring Illicit Money Flows of Organized Crime
2012 – 2015 Scientific Director of the Economic and Social Research Institute WSI in Düsseldorf
2013 Member of the Enquete-Kommission of the German Bundestag: Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität (growth, well-being, life-quality
2016 - present Nomination as a member of the German Scientific Council (Wissenschaftsrat) by the German President of the Republic
2016 – present Head of the EU Horizon 2020 Project COFFERS, Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
Feb 2017 Expert in the Panama Committee, European Parliament on Money Laundering in Offshore Centres
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Fellowships and Honors • Joseph Schumpeter fellowship 1989-1990 of the Austrian Joseph Schumpeter Society • Fulbright travel stipend 1989 - 1990 • Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship 1990 - 1991 of the Austrian Research Fund (Forschungsförderungsfonds) • Global Leader for Tomorrow, nominated by the World Economic Forum in Davos for 1993 - 1999 • Dr. Maria Schaumayer fellowship 1994 - 1995 of the Austrian National Bank • Invited lecture (DozentInnenvortrag) at the Meeting of the Austrian Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft, 6th of June 1998 • NIAS Fellow 1998 - 1999 of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. • Senator Wilfling price of the Wirtschaftsuniversität 1998 • Dr. Theodor Körner price 1999 • Inaugural lecture, Utrecht University School of Economics, 22nd of October 2003
Teaching Experience 5-8 hours weekly since 1984, partly in weekly courses, partly in compact courses, partly traditional teaching, partly alternative methods applying Montessori and Freinet techniques and other techniques such as group dynamics, partly in German, partly in English and partly in Dutch language, partly alone and partly with colleagues and with international interdisciplinary professors and people from practical business, partly in small and partly in large groups. Teaches economists and non-economist students of diverse age from 18 to 87 (biologists, geographers, business students, businessmen, teachers, diplomats, employees, civil servants) and students from many different countries.
For the first two years of studying Micro- and macroeconomics (Proseminare aus Mikro- und Makroökonomie) Economic Policy (Proseminare aus Wirtschaftspolitik) Macroeconomics for Economists (Proseminare aus Makroökonomie für VolkswirtInnen)
For graduate students and PhD students (second and third studying stage, partly in compact courses) some selected examples Seminars on macroeconomics, preparations for the final exams of non-economist students, macroeconomics for economists, macroeconomic theories from 1930 until 1995, reading class of Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, of Schumpeter and of Adam Smith.
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Seminars on international economics, exchange rate theories, on Krugman’s Geography of Trade, on globalization, on theories of convergence, on EU-integration problems, on the role of the International Monetary Funds.
Seminars on monetary economics, financial flows, the European economic and monetary union, the stabilizing and destabilizing function of financial markets.
Seminars on economic policy, employment policy, causes of unemployment, budget problems, tax reforms, savings subsidies, room for manoeuvre of economic policy making in a global world, fiscal policy with fixed and flexible exchange rates and in a monetary, master of law and economics and of economics and social sciences courses on policy competition in an international world.
Seminars on public sector economics, introductory course of economics of the public sector (at Utrecht University School of Economics and at the University College Utrecht), advanced public sector economics for research master students and PhD students, economics of the public sector for law students, economics of the public sector for public management students (all at Utrecht University).
Seminars on institutional economics, the tragedy of the commons, economic governance institutions between the market and the state, social partnership, old and new institutionalism, neo-institutionalism in economics and in other disciplines (Williamson versus March and Olsen), theories of property rights, institutional economics preparatory course for the final exam (Richter and Furubotn).
Seminars on industrial economics, the future of European industries, national innovation systems do they still exist?, measuring problems of innovative performance, innovative behaviour of selected sectors, regulation and deregulation problems.
Seminars on applied macroeconomics and public sector economics, general introductory course into public sector economics, political discussion making and public choice, pension and ageing, policy competition in an international world.
Research Seminar on how to write a scientific paper, preparation for diploma works and to reduce writing barriers. Research Supervising Seminar for diploma and PhD students.
Interdisciplinary joint Seminars (with people from practical fields or from other disciplines). With Austrian experts and international guest professors such as Prof. Ewald Nowotny and Dr. Reinhard Pirker, both Vienna University of Economics; Prof. Dieter Stiefel, History Department, Vienna University; Mag. Berta Schreckeneder, Employment Service Vienna; Dr. Thomas Lachs, Director of the Austrian National Bank; Dr. Edith Kitzmantel, European Commission; Mag. Wolfgang Nitsche, Austrian Ministry of Finance; Charles Sisson, International Monetary Fund; Professor Alessandra Casella,
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Columbia University; Professor Horst Tomann, Free University Berlin; Professor Philippe Schmitter, Stanford University and European University, Florence; Wendy Carline, Oxford University; Christoph Minnig, University of Bern, Dr Bruno Rossmann, Chamber of Labour, Prof. Frans van Waarden, Utrecht University, Prof. Arne Heise, Cologne University, Prof. David Vogel, Berkeley Haas Business School.
Teaching and Lecturing Apart from the Regular Commitments • Lecturer at the European Institute, Chicago University, in Vienna, Lecture on International Economics, summer term 1987 • Lecturer at Stanford University winter term 1990, seminar by Prof. Juergen Mueller, Berlin, Austrian Part • Lecturer at the Vienna University, Department of Geography, Proseminar in Economics, winter semester 1994/1995 • Lecturer for BASF employees, Semmering, Austria, diverse years • Lecturer at the Vienna University, Department of Biology, Lectures on Introduction into Economics for ecologists in cooperation with the Wirtschaftsuniversität, Institute for Urban Planning, Prof. Schubert, winter semester 1995/96, 1996/1997 and 1999/2000 • Lecturer at the Department of German Language, at the Janos Pannonius University, in Pecs, Hungary, 1995 - 1996 • Lecturer in the English speaking teaching program (elv) and other programs for foreign exchange students at the Wirtschaftsuniversität from 1995 on • Lecturer in the EU - project TEMPER, organized by the Zentrum für Auslandsstudien, Wirtschaftsuniversität, Romania, April 1996 • Lecture at the university of Sofia, Bulgaria on social partnership and the possibilities to implement it in Bulgaria, 1996 (D. Dimitrov) • Lecturer in the IMBA program of the Wirtschaftsuniversität (jointly with the University of South Carolina, US), winter 1996/1997 and 1997/1998. Course on Open Macroeconomics and International Monetary Economics • Lecturer for IMBA on EU-Integration, 7th of July 1998 and 20th of August 1998 • Lecturer at the Volksbankenakademie, Manager Training, latest one on the 23th of March 1998 • Lecturer at the International University Institute in Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 2000, 2002, 2008 - 2016 on Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies: Welfare States • Lecturer at the Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes, for civil servants, winter 2001 on globalisation and effects on national economic policy making • Lecturer at the university program for schoolteachers (Hochschullehrgang) in political education, university of Innsbruck (together with political scientists), February 2001 and 2002 (on economic and political constraints for social policy makers).
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• Lecture for the NVM (Nederlandse Vereniging van Makelaren, Dutch Assosiation for Real Estate agents), 17th of May 2006 • Lecture at the University of Nyenrode on money laundering for forensic accountants, 29th of September 2006 • Lecture on Money Laundering for Financiële Recherche (police), Zwolle, 26th of October 2006 • Lecture on Who Governs Financial Markets? at the Vienna University, department of Geography, 20th of March 2007 • Lecture at Holland Casino Breda, diner pensant, on Money Laundering, 31st of May 2007 • Lecture at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Maastricht Business School, 22nd of January 2008. • Lecturer at the International University Institute in Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 2008 on Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies: Financial Crime in a Global Theatre and in April 2010 on the Financial Crisis • Lecture at Holland Casino Enschede, diner pensant, 28th of October 2008 • Lecture at the European Academy of Law (ERA) on Trade Based Money Laundering and the Risk Based Approach • Lecture at Holland Casino in Utrecht, diner pensant, 20th of January 2009 • Course on Setting up Public Sector Economics Teaching at the Independent University of Kigali and the National University of Ruanda for Nuffic, Program Strengthening the Law Faculties financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, September 2009 • Lectures for Top managers organized by Koenigswieser Network in France, Vienna and Berlin • Lectures for Public Prosecutors on Money Laundering, the Netherlands • Diverse Lectures at the Conferences on Poverty in Austria and Germany (Armutskonferenzen) 2012 - 2016 • Diverse Lectures at the Homeless Organisation Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe 2015 - 2016
Administrative Experience at the University Representative of the Assistant Professors in various University Boards in diverse years (Faculty Meetings, Institute Meetings, Department Meetings, Research Advisory Board, University Restructuring Boards) and other administrative work in Vienna.
Member of the faculty advisory board (faculteitsraad) and sub-faculty advisory board and of the graduate program board (graduate bestuur) in Utrecht 2002 - 2007. Member of the
8 Univ. Prof. Dr. Mag. Brigitte Unger department advisory board (departementsraad) 2007 - 2012. Member of the Teaching Commission (Onderwijs commissie) 2010 – 2015. Supervision of Diploma Works and PhD Theses Co-supervision of diploma works and dissertations from 1984 - 1998. Since 1999 own diploma and dissertation supervision. At the moment supervising seven PhD-candidates.
Research Projects and Workshop Participations For the Austrian Ministry of Health, on the efficiency of legal versus technical norms for environmental policy, case study on dry cleaning companies, leader Dr. Svoboda, Vienna, Austria, 1996
US-Project on Governance of Capitalist Economies, leader Prof. P.C. Schmitter, W. Streeck, R. Hollingsworth, in Racine, Wisconsin, the USA, 1987 and in Bellagio, Italy, 1988
Savings Institutions project (Sparkassenverband) on monetary aggregates in Austria together with P. Mooslechner, Economic Research Institute, G. Gugerell Director of the Austrian National Bank and F. Schneider, University of Linz
EU-Project on the Future of Industries in Europe (FINE), leader Joseph Hilbert, Institut für Arbeit und Technik, Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen. Diverse workshops und conference in Gelsenkirchen, 1992 - 1993
Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR), workshop on "Post-War European Growth", Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, June 4th - 5th 1993
Federal Ministry of Labour, health and social affairs, on the Social Dialogue, for Austria’s EU presidency, consultant for the economics part, leader Prof. Anton Pelinka, 1998. In this context member of the advisory board for international affairs (Beirat für Internationales).
Max Planck Institute Cologne, Adjustment of National Employment and Social Policy to Internationalization, leader Prof. Fritz Scharpf and Prof. Vivien Schmidt, 1998 - 2000. Workshops in Cologne, November 1998 and in Munich, Schloss Ringberg, January 1999. Project on National Systems of Innovation, leaders Prof R. Hollingsworth (Wisconsin), J. Hague (Maryland) and F. van Waarden (Utrecht) at NIAS, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 1998 – 2000.
Project for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, An Interdisciplinary State of the Art of Innovation Research, the Hague, the Netherlands, 1999.
Project on Social Partnership and their Reaction to Crises, by Human Dynamics and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2000.
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EU-TSER-Project: A National Systems of Innovation and the Idea Innovation Chain, leader of the Austrian chapter, project leader Prof. Van Waarden (University of Utrecht), other countries Prof. Schienstock (University of Tampere, Finland) and Prof. Grande (TU-Munich), 1998 - 2001.
European University Institute Project together with ISFOL, Rome on the Efficiency of Labour Market Reforms and Work Incentives in Florence, Italy, leader Prof. Maurizio Ferrera and Prof. Martin Rhodes, 2001.
Organizing the Tjalling C. Koopmans Workshop Series, International Policy Competition and Coordination, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24th - 25th of June 2005.
Kiiyer, H., B. Unger, and B. van Groezen (2005) Pension Provision in Europe: On the Heterogeneity of Public Opinion, paper presented at the the Tjalling C. Koopmans Workshop Series, International Policy Competition and Coordination, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24th - 25th of June 2005.
Unger, B. and G. Rawlings (2005) Competing for Criminal Money, Tjalling C Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 05-26, paper presented at the the Tjalling C. Koopmans Workshop Series, International Policy Competition and Coordination, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands 24th - 25th of June 2005.
Dutch Ministry of Finance project, Money Laundering, Its Amounts and Effects, with the collaboration of dr. Greg Rawlings, drs. Melissa Siegel, Joras Ferwerda, BSc., Wouter de Kruijf, BSc., drs. Madalina Busuioc and drs. Kristen Wokke, 2005.
World Bank and Dutch Ministry of Finance project, Corridor Study of Workers’ Remittances Between the Netherlands and Suriname, with the collaboration of drs. Melissa Siegel, Joras Ferwerda, BSc. and Wouter de Kruijf, BSc., 2005 - 2006.
Bocconi University Milan, Workshop on Financial Markets and Integrity: Money Laundering, Usury, Corruption and Enforcement, Milan, Italy, 15th of March 2006.
European Commission, Committee for Anti-Money Laundering, Lecture on the Scale of Money Laundering, Brussels, Belgium, 19th of April 2007.
TNI (TransNational Institute Amsterdam), Seminar on Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Financial Regulation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 12th – 13th of June 2007.
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Dutch Ministry of Finance, of Justice and of Internal Affairs, Project on Money Laundering in the Dutch Real Estate Sector (together with Hans Nelen, University of Maastricht), September 2008 – June 2009.
EU Project leader for JLS/2009/ISEC/AG/087 DG Home Affaires ECOLEF, on The Economic and Legal Effectiveness of Anti Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing Policy in the 27 EU Member Countries, December 2009 – December 2012.
EU Project on Corruption in Public Procurement involving EU Funds, OLAF DG Justice, sub-partner of Ecorys, together with Price Waterhouse Cooper, 2012 - 2013.
EU Project partner for ‘Organized Crime Portfolio’ by Transcrime, funded by DG Justice, Milan, Italy, 2013 – 2014.
EU Project leader for the EU Horizon 2020 Project, Research and Innovation Program Grant No 727145, COFFERS, Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators, November 2016 – October 2019.
WODC Project leader on ‘Aard en omvang van criminele bestedingen’ – ways and amounts of criminal spending’ for the Dutch Ministry of Justice, December 2016 - October 2017.
Selected Conference Participation (with lectures held) and Invited Lectures Symposium WU Wien, Steuerungsprobleme der Wirtschaftspolitik, auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne, Podiumdiskussion, 2nd - 3rd of June 1989.
Panel organizer at SASE conferences in Irvine, California (1991), New York (1992), Vienna (1998) and Madison (1999).
OECD-Conference on Medium Term Economic Assessment, organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, Vienna, Austria, 1991.
Conference on "The Demise of the State", organized by the Austrian Academy of science, by Egon Matzner and Wolfgang Blaas in May 1993 and on "Integration and Disintegration in Europe" in April 1994.
Studientag Österreichische Kommission “Iustitia et Pax“, Umverteilung – ein Weg zum Sozialen Zusammenhalt, 9th of June 1994.
SCANCOR Seminar, Stanford University, Prof. James March, February 1995.
Euro-lunch Talks, Center for European Studies, Stanford, California, 1995.
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Conference on EU Enlargement, Stanford University, organized by Prof Josling and Schleicher, Stanford, California, April 1995.
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Symposium on 75 Jahre Wirtschaftsploitik der Arbeiterkammer Rückblick und Ausblick, Panel für Allgemeine Diskussion, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Vienna, Austria, 14th of November 1995.
Conference on Globalization and Inequality, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 1996.
Vortragsreiche zur Entwicklung der Arbeitsgesellschaft, Globalisierung, weltweite Liberalisierung, Poly College Stöbergasse, Wiener Volksbildungsverein, Vienna, Austria, 7th of May 1997.
EU-Conference, Grundrechte in Europa, Österreichischer Dialog über politische und soziale Rechte in der EU, 23rd - 24th May 1997.
Opening Lecture of the Landesratssitzung of the Green Party, on Poverty in the European Union, November 1997.
Discussion Panel in the Republikanischen Club on poverty and wealth (von Armut reden, vom Reichtum schweigen) together with Van der Bellen, Marin, Huster, Fürst, December 1997.
Conference Project, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, The Adjustment of National Employment and Social Policy to Economic Internationalization, Netherlands – Belgium – Austria, together with A. Hemerijck and J. Visser, 12th - 14th of March 1998.
Invited guest lecture for Dozent Innen at the meeting of the Nationaloekonomische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria, 5th of June 1998.
Frauenringvorlesung WU Wien, Frauen außer Konkurrenz, Die Anima in der Ökonomie, 8th - 9th of May 1998.
Opening Lecture and Radio Interview at the Works Council Meeting, Linz, Austria, 16th of March 1998.
TV discussion on the Euro, moderator Nora Frey, May 1998.
Conference on Equality, Welfare and Democracy, Stanford University, European Forum and IIS, Stanford, California, May 1999.
Lecture at the Workshop on National Systems of Innovation, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 1999.
TV WS1 Interview on the National Activity Plan on Employment, July 1999.
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Vortrag an der WU-Wien, Konvergenz und Entwicklung 20th - 21st of December 1999.
Conference on Employment Policy and Social Policy, organized by the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany, 2000.
Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies, European Welfare States and Employment, International University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10th - 14th of April 2000.
Hanse Wissenschaftkolleg, The Welfare State and the Labour Market: Concepts, Policies, and Cross-national Experiences, 27th – 30th of April 2000.
Oesterreichische Nationalbank Workshop, Wage Bargaining Within EMU, Discussant on Credibly Conservative Monetary Policy and Wage/Price-Bargaining Organization, 9th of October 2000.
Verwaltungsakademie, Das Österreichische Modell der Wirtschaftspolitik, Austria, 8th of November 2000.
Dissemination Conference of the EU Project on National Systems of Innovation and the Idea Innovation Chain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001.
ISFOL Conference on Labour Market Reforms and Work Incentives at the Badia, Fiesole, Italy, 2001.
WU Seminar Effizienz, Die Effizienz von Reformen: Arten von Reformen, Wirtschafts Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 18th of March 2002.
Seminar Effizienz von Reformen, Schaffung eines Europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaates, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 28th of April 2002.
Inclusion and Exclusion: Creating a European Welfare State, International University Centre Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24th of April 2002.
Stadium Generale, Utrecht School of Economics, Economie en Maatschappij, Globalisering en de Ruimte voor Nationaal-Economisch Beleid, together with F. van Waarden, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9th of April 2003.
ECU’92 congress, Sociaal Kapitaal, Borrelen voor Economische Groei, University College Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 11th of February 2004.
Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Economics Analysis Division Workshop, The Political Economy of International Financial Governance, Vienna, Austria, 26th of November 2004.
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SASE 17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, What Counts? Calculation, Representation, Association, Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 30th of June - 2nd of July 2005.
The Tjalling C. Koopmans Workshop Series, International Policy Competition and Coordination, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 24th-25th June 2005. (organizer of the workshop and paper presentation)
Bertelsmann Stiftung, Conference “Internationaler Reformmonitor“, Tarifpolitik der Zukunft – Wie Koorperation gelingen kann, Berlin, Germany, 12th of December 2005.
Austrian Hayek Association, Yearly Conference, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 28th - 29th of September 2006.
NFX (Netherlands Financial Sector Exchange) Conference on 'Mind the Gap - bankable approaches to increase access to finance' presentation on remittances between the Netherlands and Suriname, 2nd of November 2006.
Inter-American Development Bank, Seminar on Foreign Remittances & Development and Microfinance in Suriname, 13th of September 2007.
Conference on Money Laundering, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law (G. Michielse), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 21st of September 2007.
Organizer of and Speaker at Conference ‘Tackling Money Laundering’ Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2nd - 3rd of November 2007.
Discussant of Jan Kregel, The Stability or Instability of Financial Global Markets, Finance Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 16th of November 2007.
Workshop on Money Laundering at Europol, Rafael Rondelez, the Hague, the Netherlands, 3rd of March 2008.
Workshop on Underground Banking, Free University of Amsterdam (Dina Siegel and Henk van der Bunt), Lecture on Underground banking in Suriname, 12th of March 2008.
Conference Momentum 08, leader of the panel Steuern, Hallstatt, Austria, 21st - 22nd of September 2008.
Europakongress of the Green Party Austria, “Für Europalernen", Opening Lecture on Die Ursachen and Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise (The Causes and Effects of the Financial Crisis), Graz, Austria, 21st of November 2008.
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Conference on the Shadow Economy, Bocconi University (together with the University of Naples), 5th - 6th of February 2009.
Invited Speaker to the Department of Economics Seminar (Prof. Bagella) at Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy, May 2009.
Invited Speaker at the University of Wollongong, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, Andrew Goldsmith, Australia, 8th of May 2009.
Invited Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the (Mitgliederversammlung der) Industriellenvereinigung Kärnten, BKS Bank, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1st of October 2009.
Invited Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the (Mitgliederversammlung der) Industriellenvereinigung Salzburg, Mozarthaus, Salzburg, Austria, 6th of October 2009.
Invited Speaker at the Austrian Embassy in Paris, Meeting with Austrian/French Entrepreneurs in Paris (organized by Koenigswieser), Paris, France, 13th of October 2009.
Invited Speaker to the Austrian Parliament (by president B. Prammer) How to prevent another financial crisis, Austria, 20th of November 2009.
Invited Panel organizer and speaker at the XVIII International Tor Vergata Conference on Money, Banking and Finance, "Global Institutions for Global Markets", 2nd – 4th of December 2009.
Lecture on Nobel prize winners Elena Ostrom and Oliver Williams Utrecht University (organized by Eric Stamm), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9th of December 2009.
Conference on Working Together against serious crime (Samenstrijden tegen ernstige vormen van criminaliteit), organized by the Ministries of Justice and Inner Affaires, Societeit de Witte, the Hague, the Netherlands, 16th of December 2009.
Lecture at the Arbeiterkammer Wien, Destablisierung der Finanzmaerkte und Managergehaelter, Arbeiterkammer, Vienna, Austria, 14th of January 2010.
Lecture at the Bad Ischler Dialog, Platform of the Austrian Social Partners, Wachstum, Beschaeftigung Integration (growth, employment integration), 18th – 19th of October 2010.
Lecture at the Salon Berlin Gefluester, Koenigswieser Network, Berlin, Germany, 3rd of November 2010.
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Lecture at the Dutch tax authority conference, Ontdekken van criminele activiteiten, FIOD en belastingdient Utrecht, Zalencentrum inde driehoek, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 18th of November 2010.
Regional Workshop EU project on The Economic and Legal Effectiveness of Anti Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing Policy, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1st – 3rd of December 2010.
Conference on Europa in der Krise, in memoriam Joerg Huffschmid, organized by ATTAC in cooperation with the Vienna Lectures (Wiener Vorlesungen), panel discussion with J. Galbraith, Altes Rathaus Vienna, Austria, 9th of December 2010.
Keynote Lecture at the Conference on the Shadow Economy, topic on Money Laundering, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, 28th – 31st of July 2011.
Lecture at the European Consortium of Policy Research, ECPR in Reykjavik, on Do Countries Pretend to Obey the Law (together with Joras Ferwerda), Reykjavik, Iceland, 24th – 28th of August 2011.
Panel Discussant at Die Europäische Union in der Krise: Über die Verhältnisse gelebt?, Bundesarbeitskammer Österreich, Brussels, Belgium, April 2012.
Challenges of Europe – the Strength of Soft Power, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14th of April 2012.
SPD-Arbeitsgruppe zur Enquete-Kommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“, Berlin, Germany, June 2012.
Presentation: The Current Euro Crisis and the Role of Germany at WSI Summer School 2012, Berlin, Germany, September 2012.
Presentation: Reanimating Labour oriented Research, at Workshop on Corporatism and Business Cycle, Verona, Italy, September 2012.
Presentation: The ECOLEF-project: The Economic and Legal Effectiveness of Anti Money Laundering Policy at Conference on Asset Recovery, Law office of the Republic of Cyprus, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, October 2012.
Discussant at European Dialogue – What will happen after privatization and deregulation? Panel: Austerity and Public Investment, Hans-Boeckler Stiftung, Brussels, Belgium, November 2012.
Speaker at Hearings EU Parliament Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering, 23th of April 2013.
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DGB and WSI Tagung „Neuen Ordnung der Arbeit“, June 2013.
Social Policy Conference of Social Justice Ireland “Towards a Social Europe”, Ireland, 30th of November 2013.
WSI Herbstforum “Arbeitszeiten der Zukunft: Selbstbestimmt, Geschlechtergerecht, Nachhaltig!”, Germany, 27th – 28th of November 2014.
Keynote Lecture at the 10th Conference on Poverty, Salzburg, Austria, 24th of February 2015.
Fachtag "Frauen in Armut und Wohnungsnot", Zukunft der Armut, Zukunft des Reichtums (Future of poverty and wealth), Sozialpädagogische Alternativen in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1st of March 2016.
Expert Lecture on Offshore Centres and Money Laundering at the Panama Committee in the European Parliament, 24th of January 2017.
Memberships and Advisory Boards • Member of the American Economic Association (AEA). • Member of the Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft, Austria. • Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics, SASE US since 1988 • Founding Member of SASE Austria in 1994 • Member of the Executive Board of SASE US, Madison, since July 1998 - 2001 • Member of the Editorial Board of Socio-Economic Review, the journal of SASE 1998 - 2010 • Member of the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR) network on A Post War European Growth. • Head of the Council on Societal, Economic and Environmental Concerns, Beirat für gesellschaftswirtschafts- und umweltpolitische Fragen 1988 - 1989 • Co-editor of the Austrian Economic Journal „Kurswechsel“ 1988 - 1989 • Member of the Scientific Council and Forum for the Quarterly Journal of Political Education (Wissenschaftlichen Beirat und Forum zur Erstellung der vierteljährlichen Zeitschrift Forum für Politische Bildung) Vienna, 1996 – present • Referee for Diverse Journals, Oxford University Press and Edward Elgar • Advisory Board at the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties), on Fiscal Federalism (Scenario’s decentraal belastinggebied in relatie tot de bestuurlijke verhoudingen), inspiratiegroep, project leader dr. E.G. van de Mortel, October 2006 – June 2007 • Advisory Board on Trade Based Money Laundering at the Dutch Ministry of Finance in 2007 - 2008
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• Advisory Board on ‘Ondergronds Bankieren’ (underground banking) at the Dutch Ministry of Finance 2007 - 2008 • EU Expert Working Group, Sub Group on Statistical Indicators of Money Laundering, at the European Commission, DG Justice Freedom and Security, 2007 - 2010 • EU Expert Working Group on Asset Recovery, DG Home Affaires • IMF Brainstorming Group on Attractiveness Indicators for Money Laundering, (Steve Dawe), April 2008 • EUROSTAT Task Force on Statistical Indicators for Money Laundering, Luxembourg, 2009 - 2010 • UNODC, Advisory Board on Measuring Illicit Financial Flows of Organized Crime, Vienna, 2010 - 2011 • EUROSTAT Task Force on Handbook of Money Laundering 2016 - 2017
For my performance in the media and for my publications see my homepage http://www2.econ.uu.nl/users/unger/ under IN THE MEDIA and PUBLICATIONS, where articles can also be downloaded.
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