Dec.9 - Dec.11, 2011 Vienna – Austria

Hannes Androsch

Former Austrian Federal Minister of Finance former Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria PDG, AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH

1938 Born on 18 April in Vienna

1953 Head of the Floridsdorf section of the Association of Social Democratic Junior High School Students

1956 School leaving certificate (Matura) College of International Trade in Vienna

1959 Degree in Business Administration

1960 Chairman of the Vienna Section of the Austrian Union of Social Democratic Students

(VSStÖ)

1962 Chairman of the Austrian Union of Social Democratic Students (VSStÖ)

Secretary, then consultant on economic issues for the Social Democratic parliamentary party (until 1963 1967)

1966 Tax Consultant

Stands for Parliament

1967 Member of Parliament

1968 Certified auditor and tax consultant

Deputy State Commissioner at the Zentralsparkasse (until 1970)

PhD in Economics

1970 Austrian Minister of Finance (until 1981)

1972 Member of the National Executive Committee of the SPÖ (until 1983)

1974 Member of the SPÖ Party Presidium and Deputy Party Chairman of the SPÖ (until 1981)

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1976 Vice-Chancellor (until 1981)

1979 Chairman of the OECD at ministerial level

1980 Chairman of the Interim Committee of the International Monetary Fund

1981 January to June - Deputy General Manager of the -Bankverein;

as of July: General Manager (until 1988)

1988 Consultant at the (until 1989)

1989 Founding of AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH

1994 Industrialist

2003 Chairman of the University Council of the Mining University Leoben

Establishment of the "Hannes Androsch Foundation at the Austrian Academy of Sciences", a non- 2004 profit foundation

2008 Dr. h.c. of the Bratislava School of Law, Slovakia

2009 Dr. h.c. of the University of New Orleans, USA

2010 Expo Shanghai 2010 Commissioner General of Austria

2010 Head of RFTE, the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development

2011 Initiator of the education referendum

Hannes Androsch lives in Vienna and Altaussee

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