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Aurel Schubert

Prof. Schubert

Aurel Schubert

Honorary Professor at the Department of Economics

e-mail:     aurel.schubert@wu.ac.at

office:     D4.1.161

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1956 born in Budapest/Hungary

  • 1962 - 1974 Elementary school and high-school in Vienna

  • 1974 - 1979 Commercial Studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Master of Science)

  • 1980 - 1985 Ph.D. studies for Economics and Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of South Carolina, USA

  • 1985 Graduation, Ph.D. in Economics (Univ. of South Carolina)

Career

  • 1985 - 1992 Economist, Oesterreichischen Nationalbank, Vienna (OeNB)

  • 1987/88 Visiting Trainee, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., USA

  • 1992 - 1995 Deputy Head of Division, Secretariat of the Board and Public Relations, OeNB

  • 1995 - 1997 Head of Division, Foreign Research Division, OeNB

  • 1997 - 2010 Director of Statistics, OeNB

  • 2000 - 2010 Member of the Statistical Council of Statistics Austria

  • 2004 - 2005 Member of the Executive Body of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics of the European Union (CMFB)

  • 2006 - 2007 Chair of the Statistics Task Force of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB)

  • 2008 - 2018 Member and then Vice-Chair of the Executive of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC)

  • 2010 - 2018 Director General for Statistics, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, and Chair of the Statistics Committee of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB)

  • 2010 - 2017 Member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC)

  • 2011 - 2018 Chair of the Contact Group on Data of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)

  • 2013 - 2018 Co-Chair of the European Statistical Forum (ESF)

  • 2017 - Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)

  • 2018 Visiting Professor, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza

  • 2019 - 2023 Elected Member of the Council of the ISI

  • 2019 - Emphasis Editor of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS

  • Lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Vienna School of International Studies, Conference speaker, Central bank consultant.

Publications

  • Author of „The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931”, Cambridge University Press, and more than 50 articles about (European) Central banking, Monetary history, and Statistics.

Awards

  • “Outstanding Academic Performance Award” Department of Economics of the University of South Carolina, USA.

  • “Outstanding Teaching Performance Award”, Department of Economics of the University of South Carolina, USA.

  • “Walther Kastner Preis”, Verband Österreichischer Banken und Bankiers, Vienna.

  • “Excellence in Teaching Award”, Webster University Vienna.

  • Honorary Professor for Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.

  • Honorary Member of the Austrian Statistical Society.