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Karl Aiginger Directorate General XI (Environment). Karl Aiginger, born in 1948, has been Mr. Beyrer was a member of the EU- Director of the Austrian Institute of Expert-Team („EU-Cadett“) of the De- Economic Research (WIFO) since partment for European Integration- March 2005. He is a Professor of eco- and Trade Policy in the Austrian Fed- nomics at the University of Linz and he eral Economic Chamber from 1992 to held a position of a visiting Professor at 1994. Markus J. Beyrer studied law Stanford University (1982 and 2002); and commercial sciences at the Univer- the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- sity of Vienna and the Vienna Univer- ogy (MIT, 1991); and the University of sity of Economics and Business Admin- California Los Angeles (UCLA, 1997). istration; he completed a postgraduate He has contributed to the Austrian Ad- master course for European Law – visory Council for Economic and Social Euro-Jus– at the Danube University Affairs and the Reform Dialogue of the Krems. Austrian Government. He is a lead manager and contributor to the Euro- Wolfgang Duchatczek pean Competitiveness Reports since Wolfgang Duchatczek has been serving 1998. He is the editor of the Journal of as Vice Governor of the Oester- Industry, Competition and Trade reichische Nationalbank (OeNB) since (JICT, jointly with André Sapir). Key 2003. He joined the OeNB in 1976 and areas of research include industrial eco- the Office of the Governor in 1978. He nomics, industrial policy and competi- was appointed Chief of the Office of tiveness. the Governor in 1982 and Deputy Ex- ecutive Director of the Foreign Re- Markus J. Beyrer search Department in 1987. In addi- Markus J. Beyrer has been Secretary tion, he served as Representative of the General of the Federation of Austrian OeNB on the EC Integration Commit- Industries since August 2004. After his occupation as expert for European and International Affairs in the Department for Environmental Policy in the Aus- trian Federal Economic Chamber (1996–1999), he became Director of the Economic Policy Department of the Austrian Federal Economic Cham- ber in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he was working for the former Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel (Vice Chancellor) of Austria as senior eco- nomic advisor. Markus J. Beyrer also participated in a Concours at the Euro- pean Commission (successful candi- tee of the Austrian Federal Govern- date) and he was employed as Attaché ment. Mr. Duchatczek was appointed for Industrial and Commercial Affairs Director of the Area International Re- at the Permanent Representation of lations of the OeNB in 1992 and repre- Austria to the European Union from sented the OeNB during Austria’s EU 1994 to 1996. In spring 1994, he made accession negotiations. He was nomi- a stage in the European Commission, nated Chairman of the European Com-

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mission’s Committee on Monetary, Fi- tant of Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell in nancial and Balance of Payments Statis- 1999, who was then the member of the tics (CMFB) and served as the OeNB’s Governing Board in charge of banking Second Alternate on the Committee of supervision. In 2001, he was appointed Alternates of the European Monetary deputy head of the Banking Analysis Institute (EMI). In 1997, he was ap- and Inspections Division and became pointed to the OeNB’s Board of Execu- its head in 2003. The Federal President appointed Helmut Ettl as new member of FMA Executive Board of the Finan- cial Market Authority FMA for a term of office of five years. Josef Falkinger Josef Falkinger is Professor of Public Finance and Macroeconomics at the University of Zurich. He obtained his doctorate in technical mathematics from the University of Linz in 1979 and his doctorate in economics in 1982 (also University of Linz). He was econo- mist at the Chamber of Commerce, tive Directors as Deputy Chief Execu- 1979–1982, and then at the University tive Director of the Liquidity and Port- of Linz, as Assistant Professor and Lec- folio Management and Internal Services turer from 1982 to 1990. He has Department, and in 1998 he joined the worked and taught at the University of OeNB’s Governing Board as Executive Graz, as Professor of Public Economics Director of the Money, Payment Sys- from 1991 to 1994, and at the Univer- tems and Information Technology De- sity of Regensburg, as Professor of In- partment. Mr. Duchatczek holds a doc- dustrial Economics and Foreign Trade torate in economics and social sciences Theory, 1990 and from 1995 to 2000. and has been awarded the Grand Deco- His research interests include macro- ration of Honor in Gold for Services to economics – in particular employment, the Republic of Austria. distribution and growth – and public goods. His work has been published in Helmut Ettl the Journal of Public Economics, Euro- Helmut Ettl was born on August 23, pean Economic Review, Journal of the 1965 in Linz, where he also attended a Japanese and International Economies, business administration college (HAK) Research in Labor Economics, Ameri- and then studied economics at the Jo- can Economic Review, among other hannes Kepler University in Linz. After journals. His book on “A Theory of completing his alternative service, he Employment in Firms. Macroeconomic worked in various positions for the city Equilibrium and Internal Organization of Linz child-welfare services. In 1995, of Work” appeared in 2002. he moved to Vienna and joined the For- eign Research Division of the Oester- Werner Faymann reichische Nationalbank (OeNB), his Werner Faymann (born May 1960) is priority area being the economic and the Federal Chancellor of the Republic monetary union. He became the assis- of Austria. He started his political ca-

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reer as provincial chairman of the So- ences at the University of Cologne, a cialist Youth Vienna in 1985. In the position he held until 1990. In 1977, he same year he started to work as consul- received a six-month appointment from tant for Zentralsparkasse (now Bank the Soviet Academy of Sciences for con- Austria). Between 1985 and 1994, he sulting and teaching, mainly in Novo- was a Member of the Viennese state sibirsk and Moscow. He serves on the parliament and the municipal council. General Council of the Oester- He became director and provincial reichische Nationalbank and on the chairman of the Viennese Tenants’ Austrian Government Debt Commit- counseling in 1988. In 1994, Werner tee and is managing editor of the Ger- Faymann was appointed executive city man Economic Review (GER) and as- councilor for housing, housing con- sociate editor of Empirical Economics. struction and urban renewal, president His main fields of interest are macro- of the Viennese Fund for Provision of economic theory and policy, population Property and Urban Renewal and Vice economics and public finance. In addi- President of the Viennese Business tion to numerous other publications, he Agency. In 2007, Werner Faymann as- is the co-author of “Makroökonomik und sumed office of the Federal Minister Neue Makroökonomik“ (with St. Hom- for Transport, Innovation and Technol- burg), which is the largest-selling text- ogy. In June 2008, Mr. Faymann was book in Germany and Austria since the elected chairman of the Social Demo- mid-eighties and has been translated cratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). into four other languages. Bernhard Felderer Bernhard Felderer (born in 1941) has been the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, Austria, since 1991 and Professor of economics at the University of Co- logne, Germany, since 1995. He stud- ied law and economics at the University of Vienna, where he received his doc- toral degree in 1964. Following his studies in economics at the Faculté de Droit et Sciences Economiques of the University of Paris, he worked one year as a research assistant of Professor Fritz Machlup at Princeton University, New Erich Foglar York, and later on lectured as a visiting Erich Foglar is the current President of professor at the University of North the Austrian Trade Union Federation. Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.A. After He started working as a toolmaker and serving six years as an assistant profes- became a member of the works council sor at the University of Karlsruhe, Ger- in 1979, with exemption from work many, he started to lecture as a profes- duties from 1982 to 1987. In 1985, he sor at the University of Cologne in accepted office of deputy chairman of 1974. In 1987, he was appointed Direc- the works council for manual workers. tor of the Economics Seminar at the Between 1984 and 1987, he was en- Faculty of Economics and Social Sci- gaged as training official for the re-

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gional management Vienna. In the fol- other nine years at the University of lowing years Erich Foglar assumed var- Basle, Switzerland, before joining the ious responsibilities in the Metalwork- University of Mannheim in 1996. He ers’ Union (political secretary, deputy has held visiting positions at the Uni- general secretary and from 1992 to 2006 versité Catholique de Louvain, the general secretary). In spring 2006, he London School of Economics, Hebrew accepted office of the Executive Secre- University, Jerusalem, and Harvard tary of the Austrian Trade Union, tak- University. Professor Hellwig is a ing charge of finances. Already in May Member of the Economic Advisory 2006, he took over the occupation of Group on Competition Policy of the General Secretary of the Trade Union European Commission, DG Comp, for Metal, Textile and Foodworkers. In and of the Scientific Advisory Commit- December 2008, he accepted office of tee of the German Ministry of Eco- Acting President of the Austrian Trade nomic Affairs. He is also a former Pres- Union Federation, to be confirmed in ident of the European Economic Asso- the regular election on July 2, 2009. ciation and of the Verein für Sozialpoli- tik (German Economic Association), an Martin Hellwig Honorary Member of the American Martin Hellwig was appointed Direc- Economic Association, a Fellow of the tor of the Max Planck Institute for Re- Econometric Society and former co- search on Collective Goods, Bonn, and editor of Econometrica, and a former Professor of Economics, University of chairman of the German Monopolies Bonn (Courtesy Appointment) in 2004. Commission. His research interests in- He holds a diploma in economics from volve public economics, network indus- the University of Heidelberg (1970) tries and competition policy, financial and a doctorate in economics from the markets and institutions, corporate Massachusetts Institute of Technology governance, foundations of monetary theory and macroeconomics and any- thing else that looks intriguing. Andreas Ittner Andreas Ittner is a Member of the Gov- erning Board of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). He studied eco- nomics and social sciences at the Vien na University of Economics and Business Administration between 1976 and 1980. Mr. Ittner started his professional ca- reer with the Ittner retail business in Vienna in 1978. In 1983, he joined the OeNB and began to work in the Bank- (1973). Following a postdoctoral year at ing Analysis and Credit Supervision Stanford University, he spent three years Office. In 1997, he became head of the (1974–77) as assistant professor of eco- Secretariat for the President in the nomics at Princeton University, ten OeNB and in 1987, Andreas Ittner was years as associate professor (1977–79) appointed Director of the Financial and professor of economics at the Uni- Stability and Bank Inspections Depart- versity of Bonn (1979–87), and an- ment of the OeNB. Mr. Ittner is among

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other engagements an Acting Member sion, World Bank, ILO, UNCTAD, of the Banking Supervision Committee etc.), Michael Landesmann is a member of the ESCB, Vice President of the Cen- of the Coordinating Committee of the tre for Secure Information Technology, European Trade Study Group (ETSG), Member of the Supervisory Board of the main European academic forum on the Austrian Financial Market Author- international economics. In addition, ity as well as Member of the Financial Market Committee established under the Austrian Banking Supervision Act. Monika Kircher-Kohl Monika Kircher-Kohl (born in 1957) studied economics at the Vienna Uni- versity of Economics and Business and in Mexico City. In 1981, Ms. Kircher- Kohl became Managing Director of the regional department of the Austrian In- formation Service for Growth Policy in Carinthia. Before being elected Vice Mayor of the city of Villach, she lec- tured at the University of Klagenfurt he was a member of the Group Eco- and worked as a freelance consultant. nomic Analysis, the Group of Economic In 2001, Monika Kircher-Kohl joined Policy Advisors under the chairmanship Infinion Technologies Austria AG as a of former EU Commission President Member of the Board, responsible for Romano Prodi. Michael Landesmann Finance, Research & Development and completed his doctorate in economics Human Rescources. She took over of- at Oxford University (Balliol College) fice as Managing Director of the plant and was Fellow and Lecturer in eco- in Villach and became Chief Ececutive nomics, Jesus College, Cambridge and Officer of Infineon Technologies Aus- Senior Research Officer at the Depart- tria AG for Finance, Human Resources ment of Applied Economics, University and IT in 2007. of Cambridge. He is Founding Manag- ing Editor of Structural Change and Eco- Michael A. Landesmann nomic Dynamics, North Holland and a Michael A. Landesmann is Scientific member of the editorial boards of a Director of The Vienna Institute for range of academic journals. He was International Economic Studies (wiiw) Schumpeter Research Professor at Har- and Professor of economics at the vard University (USA) and held Visit- Johan nes Kepler University Linz, Aus- ing Professorships at the Graduate tria where he is also department head School of International Economics and of economic theory and quantitative Finance, Brandeis University (USA), economics. His research focuses on in- University of Basel (Switzerland), Cen- ternational economics, economic growth tral European University and CERGE-EI and structural change, industrial eco- (Prague; Czech Republic), Bombay nomics and labor markets. Apart from University (India), Universities of Bo- his participation in and co-ordination logna, Modena and Padova (Italy), of a large number of international re- Osaka University and Osaka City Uni- search projects (European Commis- versity (Japan).

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Axel Leijonhufvud in Tokyo, and Instituto Torcuato di Dr. Leijonhufvud was born in Stock- Tella in Buenos Aires. He has testified holm, Sweden and obtained his bache- before Congress on issues of banking lor’s degree at the University of Lund. and monetary policy and has been an After coming to the USA in 1960, he economic advisor to the President of earned an M.A. from the University of Kazakhstan as well as a consultant to Pittsburgh and his Ph. D. from North- Russian regional governments. He has been included in 100 Great Economists since Keynes (M. Blaug, editor), in the International Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America, etc. Dr. Leijonhufvud’s book, On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes: A Study in Monetary Economics (Oxford, 1968) was an important step in the develop- ment of disequilibrium economics and has been translated into German, Ital- ian, Spanish, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian and Chinese. Rainer Münz western University. He came to the Rainer Münz is Head of Research at University of California at Los Angeles Erste Bank in Vienna and Senior Fellow in 1964 and was named Full Professor at the Hamburg Institute of Interna- in 1971. He has served as Chairman of tional Economics (HWWI; Migration the Economics Department, most re- Research Group). He is an expert on cently in 1990–1992. In 1991, he population and migration, including la- started the Center for Computable bor migration and migration policy. He Economics at UCLA and remained its studied at Vienna University, where he Director until 1997. In 1995, he was earned his Ph. D. in 1978. Until 1992, appointed Professor of Monetary The- he was Director of the Institute of De- ory and Policy at the University of mography at the Austrian Academy of Trento, Italy. Professor Leijonhufvud Science. Between 1992 and 2003, he has honorary degrees from the Univer- was Head of the Department of De- sity of Lund, Sweden, and the Univer- mography at Humboldt University, sity of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, in Berlin. He was visiting professor at the France. He has been a Fellow of the In- Uni versities of Bamberg (1986), UC stitute of Advanced Studies in Prince- Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997–98), Frank- ton and at the Centers for Advanced furt (1988), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Studies in Vienna and in Jerusalem and Vienna (2001–02) and Zurich (1992). he is an Overseas Fellow of Churchill He also was Senior Research Fellow at College, Cambridge. He has lectured the Department of Mathematics of Fi- widely and has been a visiting professor nance, Technical University, Vienna at a number of universities including (2001–2002). Since 2002, he is Exter- the European University Institute, nal Fellow of the Center for Compara- Florence, Stockholm School of Eco- tive Immigration Studies, University of nomics, University of Konstanz, Uni- California at San Diego. Rainer Münz is versity of Strasbourg, Nihon University a member of several boards and advi-

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sory boards; among them: International from 1968 to 1973, Ewald Nowotny Organization for Migration (IOM, Ge- received his postdoctoral qualification neva), Center for Migration, Integra- (Habilitation) in General Economics tion and Citizenship at Oxford Univer- and Public Economics in 1973 and sub- sity (COMPAS, Oxford, UK), Interna- sequently held research tenures and tional Metropolis Project (Ottawa – professorships at Harvard University, Amsterdam), Association of German Technische Universität Darmstadt, Pension Insurers (VDR, Frankfurt- Germany, and the University of Linz, Berlin, Germany), Daimler-Benz Foun - Austria. From 1981 to 2008, Ewald dation (Ladenburg, Germany), SOT Nowotny served as Full Professor at Accountants (Vienna-Graz-Munich), the Vienna University of Economics and VBV Pension Insurance (Vienna), Business, where he also held the posi- OBV-HTP Publishers (Vienna). tion of Vice Rector from 2003 to 2004. In 2008, Ewald Nowotny received a Ewald Nowotny honorary doctorate in Social and Eco- Ewald Nowotny is the Governor of the nomic Sciences from the Alpen-Adria Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Ewald and a Member of the Governing Coun- Nowotny has published numerous arti- cil of the European cles in refereed journals. He is also the (ECB). Before taking on his current author or coauthor of nine books; the position in September 2008, Ewald fifth edition of his internationally re- Nowotny held a number of high-level nowned textbook “Der öffentliche Sek- positions in financial institutions. He tor – Einführung in die Finanzwissen- was CEO of the Austrian BAWAG schaft” was published in 2008. Ewald P.S.K. banking group from 2006 to Nowotny was an elected Member of 2007, served as Vice President and Member of the Executive Board of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg from 1999 to 2003 and, between 1971 and 1979, was first a Member and then President of the Gov- erning Board of Österreichische Post- sparkasse (P.S.K.). Moreover, from 1992 to 2008 Ewald Nowotny served as member of the supervisory board of several banks and corporations and was a member of the OeNB’s General Council from 2007 to 2008. Ewald Nowotny was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1944. He studied law and govern- the Austrian Parliament from 1979 to ment sciences at the University of 1999 and served as chairman of the Vienna and economics at the Institute parliamentary Finance Committee of Advanced Studies in Vienna. In 1967, from 1985 to 1999. Ewald Nowotny is he received his doctorate in law from married and has a son. the University of Vienna. After work- ing as assistant to Professor Kurt W. Lucas D. Papademos Rothschild at the Economics Depart- Lucas D. Papademos has been the Vice ment of the University of Linz, Austria, President of the European Central

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Bank since June 2002. He is also a cles and monetary policy” in Monetary Member of the Executive Board and of Policy, Economic Cycle and Financial Dy- the Governing Council of the ECB. namics, Paris: Banque de France, 2004; Previously, he was Governor of the “Economic heterogeneity, convergence Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002, and monetary policy in an enlarged Deputy Governor from 1993 to 1994 euro area” in the Journal of Economic and Economic Counsellor (Chief Econ- Asymmetries, 2004; “Policy-making in EMU: strategies, rules and discretion”, in Economic Theory, 2006; “Monitoring hedge funds: a financial stability per- spective” in Financial Stability Review No. 10 – Special Issue on Hedge Funds, Paris: Banque de France, 2007; “The role of money in the conduct of mone- tary policy”, in Reichlin, L. et al. (eds.) “The role of money: money and monetary policy in the twenty-first century”, Frank- furt: ECB, forthcoming; “Europe’s growth performance: fundamental de- terminants and the role of the financial sector” in “Perspectives on the Performance omist) from 1985 to 1993. From 1975 of the Continent’s Economies”, Cambridge to 1984, he was a professor of econom- University Press, forthcoming. ics at Columbia University in New York. In 1980, he also held the position Adam S. Posen of Senior Economist at the Federal Re- Adam S. Posen is a member of the Mon- serve Bank of Boston. He was elected etary Policy Committee of the Bank of professor of economics at the Univer- England, by appointment of the UK sity of Athens in 1988 (currently on Chancellor of the Exchequer, until Sep- leave) and a member of the Academy of tember 2012. He is also senior fellow Athens in 2006. Lucas Papademos was at the Peterson Institute for Interna- born in Athens in 1947. He received a tional Economics (PIIE) in Washing- B.S. in physics (1970), an M.S. in elec- ton, where he has been working since trical engineering (1972) and a Ph. D. 1997. His research focuses on macro- in economics (1977), all from the Mas- economic policy and performance, sachusetts Institute of Technology. He Euro pean and Japanese political econ- has published numerous articles and es- omy, central banking issues, and the says in the fields of macroeconomic resolution of financial crises. He is the theory, the structure and functioning author or editor of five books and nu- of financial markets, monetary analysis merous research articles, and received and policy as well as on subjects con- Ph. D. and his AB from Harvard Uni- cerning the economy, financial stability versity, where he was a National Sci- and the conduct of economic policy in ence Foundation Graduate Fellow. He the European Union. His recent arti- was previously a visiting scholar at cen- cles include: “The contribution of mon- tral banks worldwide and has been a etary policy to economic growth”, in consultant to several US government Bank-Archiv Journal of Banking and Fi- agencies, the European Commission, nancial Research, 2004; “Economic cy- the Japanese Ministry of Economy,

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Trade, and Industry, the UK Cabinet macro-econometric modeling, applied Office, and to the International Mone- macroeconomics, time-series econo- tary Fund on a variety of economic and metrics. foreign policy issues. Dennis J. Snower Walter Rothensteiner Dennis J. Snower is President of the Walter Rothensteiner has been Chief Kiel Institute for World Economics Executive Officer of Raiffeisen Zentral- (since 2004). He obtained his doctorate bank Österreich AG, Vienna since July in Economics from Princeton Univer- 1995 and has been its Chairman of the sity in 1975 for his dissertation on Managing Board since June 1, 1995. Mr. “Dynamic Forces of Advanced, Capi- Rothensteiner serves as a Member of talist Economies.” He was an Assistant the Managing Board at Raiffeisen Zen- Professor at the University of Mary- tralbank Österreich AG. He serves as land, the Institute of Advanced Studies, General Manager and Chairman of the Vienna, a lecturer at the University of Board of Executive Directors of Raif- London, and Full Professor of Econom- feisen Zentralbank Österreich Aktien- ics at Birkbeck College, University of gesellschaft, Vienna. Mr. Rothensteiner London (1989–2004). He has worked has been Member of the Managing and taught at Columbia University, the Board of Raiffeisenlandesbank Nieder- University of Stockholm, the Univer- österreich-Wien since 1975, AGRANA- sity of Jerusalem, the International Beteiligungs AG since 1995. He serves Monetary Fund, the European Univer- as Member of the Managing Board of sity Institute, Dartmouth College, and Leipnik-Lundenburger Industrie AG. elsewhere. Among others he received He has been Deputy Chairman of grants and awards from the Social Sci- AGRANA-Beteiligungs AG since 1995. ence Research Council, U.K., from the He served as Deputy Chairman of the Nuffield Foundation, and from ESRC. Managing Board of RZB since June 1, Since 1993 he is a Fellow of the Royal 1995. Mr. Rothensteiner holds Eco- nomics and Business Administration Degrees and studied Commercial Sci- ence at the Vienna University of Eco- nomics and Business Administration. Silvia Sgherri Silvia Sgherri has been working as an economist at the International Mone- tary Fund since 2000. She has been promoted to senior economist this year. In addition, she did research at the the ECB in 2005 and and as a research fellow at in 1999. Silvia Sgherri earned her Ph. D. Society of Arts. In April 1998, he in economics from the University of joined IZA as a research fellow and Warwick in 2000 and her Doctorate in acted as IZA Program Director for the economics and management from “Welfare State and Labor Market” until Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies 2004. Dennis Snower published in in 1998. Her research interests include Journals such as the American Eco-

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nomic Review, The Journal of Political retary General of the OECD. Earlier, Economy, European Economic Review, Mr. Strauss-Kahn served as Minister of Oxford Economic Papers, and the Eco- Economy, Finance and Industry of nomic Journal. His current research in- France from June 1997 to November terests include issues in labor econom- 1999. In this capacity, he managed the ics such as wage bargaining, the natural launch of the euro. He also represented rate of unemployment, employment France on the Board of Governors of a policies, and the economics of imper- number of international financial insti- fect information. tutions, including the IMF. Between 1993 and 1997, he was in the private Dominique Strauss-Kahn sector as a corporate lawyer. From Dominique Strauss-Kahn assumed of- 1991 to 1993, Mr. Strauss-Kahn served fice as the tenth Managing Director of as Minister of Industry and Interna- the International Monetary Fund on tional Trade, during which time he par- November 1, 2007. Upon being se- ticipated in the Uruguay Round of lected by the IMF’s Board of Executive trade negotiations. Mr. Strauss-Kahn Directors, Mr. Strauss-Kahn indicated began his career as assistant professor, that he will press ahead with reform of then Professor of economics at the Uni- the 186 member country institution versity of Paris where he was tenured in that helps oversee the global economy. 1978. He was then appointed Deputy Prior to taking up his position at the Commissioner of the Economic Plan- IMF, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was a member ning Agency (1981–1986). He was of the French National Assembly and elected Deputy (Member of Parlia- Professor of Economics at the Institut ment) to the National Assembly (1986), d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. From where he chaired the Finance Commis- sion from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Strauss- Kahn holds a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Paris. He also gradu- ated in law, in business administration, in political studies, and in statistics. As an academic, his research fields include household saving behavior, public fi- nance, and social policy. Javier Suarez Javier Suarez is Professor of banking and finance at CEMFI, Madrid, and a research member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the 2001 to 2007, he was reelected three European Corporate Governance Insti- times to the National Assembly, and in tute (ECGI), and the Financial Markets 2006, he ran for the Socialist Party’s Group of the London School of Eco- nomination for the French presidential nomics (LSE). He earned a Ph. D. in election. In 2000 and 2001, he taught Economics at Universidad Carlos III de economics at the Institut d’Etudes Poli- Madrid in 1994. After a postdoctoral tiques de Paris and was named visiting stay in Harvard University, he became professor at Stanford University. He a lecturer at the London School of Eco- was also a personal advisor to the Sec- nomics. In 1996, he joined the faculty

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of the Center for Economic and Finan- served as executive secretary for eco- cial Studies (CEMFI) in Madrid, a re- nomic and social policy and social af- search foundation of the Bank of Spain, fairs of the ÖGB. Since 1997, Herbert where he became a tenured Associate Tumpel has been in the position of Professor in 2001 and a Full Professor President of the Austrian Federal in 2004. His research and teaching ac- Chamber of Labor. tivities cover mainly the areas of corpo- rate finance and banking, with a special focus on applications of contract theory and the analysis of bank regulation, venture capital, and the linkages be- tween macroeconomics and finance. His most recent work focuses on issues such as the procyclical effects of capital requirements, the macroeconomics of money market freezes, and the regula- tion of banks’ liquidity. He has pub- lished in top economics and finance journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Eco- nomic Theory, and Review of Financial Arnout H. E. M. Wellink Studies. He is an associate editor of the Mr. Wellink has been President of De Review of Finance since 2004 and the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) since July Journal of the European Economic As- 1, 1997. Since January 1999, Mr. sociation since 2009. In 2006 he won Wellink has sat on the Governing the Fundacion Banco Herrero Prize for Council of the . Spanish researchers younger than 40 Also, he has chaired the Basel Commit- years old in the fields of economics, tee for Banking Supervision since July business, and social research. Since the 2006. Since 1997, Dr. Wellink has sat start of the financial crisis, he has got on the Board of Directors of the Bank involved in numerous initiatives bring- for International Settlement, which he ing together academics and policy mak- chaired from 2002 until 2006. Mr. ers for the discussion of key challenges Wellink is a member of the Group of for policies regarding banks, their reg- Ten Governors, the committee of cen- ulation, and the wider implications for tral bank governors of the G10 coun- the economy. tries, and a Governor of the Interna- tional Monetary Fund. Nout Wellink’s Herbert Tumpel many secondary functions include the Herbert Tumpel, born in 1948, studied following. He is Chairman of the Board economics at the University of Vienna of Supervisors of the Netherlands Open and obtained his master’s degree in Air Museum, Treasurer of the Supervi- 1973. Subsequently, he started his pro- sory Board of the Royal Picture Gallery fessional career at the Department of Mauritshuis and member of the Super- Economics of the Austrian Trade Union visory Board of the Dutch Central Ge- Federation (ÖGB). In 1983, he became nealogy Bureau. He has been awarded a head of the Department of Economics Knighthood in the Order of the Neth- of the ÖGB. From 1987 to 1997, he erlands Lion. In 1982, Mr. Wellink be-

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came an Executive Director of the in Austria after 1945). Peter Zöllner DNB. Between 1970 and 1982, he held joined the Oesterreichische National- several posts in the Ministry of Fi- bank (OeNB) in 1980, working in the nance, starting on the economic staff, Banking Department (Foreign Ex- from 1975 as the Director General of change Transaction Division, Market Financial and Economic Policy and Analysis Division, Dealing Room). Be- later as Treasurer General. From 1965 tween 1985 and 1987, Peter Zöllner until 1970, Mr Wellink worked as an lectured money and currency theory at assistant, later staff member, in the the Vienna University of Economics economics department of Leiden Uni- and Business Administration. The versity. After a study in Dutch law at OeNB dispatched Mr. Zöllner as Rep- the same university (1961–1968), resentative to New York, and in the po- Wellink obtained a doctor’s degree in sition of Consul for Financial Affairs of economics at the Rotterdam Erasmus the Republic of Austria in New York. In University. He completed his second- 1991, he became economic policy ad- viser fo the Austrian Federal Chancel- lor Vranitzky. After his appointment as Director of the Treasury Depart- ment of the OeNB in 1996 he returned to the OeNB to become Member of the Governing Board and Executive Director of the Financial Market Op- erations, Equity Interest and Internal Services Executive Directorate in 1998. Peter Zöllner holds various secondary functions as e.g. chairman of the Super- visory Board of IG Immobilien Man- agement GmbH, chairman of the Su- pervisory Board of BLM Betriebs- ary education (science and grammar Liegenschafts-Management GmbH, de- stream) in 1961. He was born on 27 puty chairman of the Supervisory Board August 1943 at Bredevoort. of Oesterreichische Banknoten- und Sicherheitsdruck GmbH, deputy, chair- Peter Zöllner man of the Supervisory Board of Münze Peter Zöllner studied International Österreich AG, deputy chairman of the Economics at the Vienna University of Advisory Board of Austria Card Plastik- Economics and Business Administra- karten und Ausweissysteme GmbH, tion and holds a doctoral degree (dis- member of the Supervisory Board of sertation on external monetary policy Casinos Austria AG.

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