Staff
Photo of all wiiw staff  
     


 
Management:
 
Elisabeth Hagen
Executive Director
 
     
Michael Landesmann
Director of Research
 
     
Peter Havlik
Deputy Director
 
     
Statistics & IT:
 
Monika Schwarzhappel
head of statistics department; Hungary, Romania; wiiw Annual Database; FDI
 
     
Boriana Assenova
statistics; Bulgaria, Ukraine; agriculture
 
     
Nadya Heger
statistics; Baltic countries, Macedonia
 
     
Beate Muck
statistics; graphical artwork; Montenegro, Serbia
 
     
Renate Prasch
statistics; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia; wiiw Industrial Database
 
     
Hana Rusková
statistics; Czech Republic, Slovak Republic; wiiw Monthly Database
 
     
Barbara Swierczek
statistics; Albania, Poland, Russia; foreign trade
 
     
Goran Paunovic
IT administration; web client development; database management
 
     
Rafael Koncilja
network and application administration; staff technical support
 
     
Project Management & Administration:
 
Veronika Janyrova
project management
 
     
Katharina Ressmann
project management
 
     
Magdalena Höllhuber
special projects
 
     
Mirta Cvar
project assistant
 
     
Barbara Apian-Bennewitz
documentation & library
 
     
Gabriele Stanek
executive secretariat & administration in general
 
     
Ursula Köhrl
sales & marketing; publications/subscriptions;
web content management
 
     
Eva Strobl
editing & translation;
web content management
 
     
Sabine Grob
text processing & secretarial assistance
 
     
Staff and associate economists and their fields of specialization:
 
Vasily Astrov
Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, CIS; macroeconomic analysis, financial markets; energy issues
 
     
Edward Christie
shadow economy; tax evasion; econometric modelling; energy economics
 
     
Neil Foster
economic growth and development, international trade and globalization, innovation and technology transfer, intellectual property rights, applied econometrics
 
     
Joseph F. Francois
trade in services; open economy competition policy and regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration
 
     
Vladimir Gligorov
Balkan countries, in particular Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia; long-term growth in transition countries; macroeconomic analysis, financial markets
 
     
Doris Hanzl-Weiß
industrial structural change, sector analysis
 
     
Peter Havlik
Russia, CIS, intra-CIS relations; East-West economic integration; foreign trade, exchange rate policies, competitiveness; statistics and database
 
     
Mario Holzner
Albania; Southeast Europe; income distribution and inequality; foreign trade; shadow economy; webmaster of the wiiw Balkan Observatory website
 
     
Gábor Hunya
Romania, Bulgaria; privatization and foreign direct investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe
 
     
Michael Landesmann
East-West economic integration, structural change, economic growth, general topics in international economic relations; EU-USA relations, globalization and labour markets, migration
 
     
Kazimierz Laski
Poland; macroeconomic problems of transition, particularly the theory of transformation and development strategy
 
     
Sebastian Leitner
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; income distribution and inequality; labour markets
 
     
Carolina Lennon
trade in services, FDI
 
     
Zdenek Lukas
Slovak Republic; agriculture in Central, East and Southeast Europe
 
     
Olga Pindyuk
Kazakhstan, CIS; foreign trade; financial markets
 
     
Leon Podkaminer
Poland, Czech Republic; economic policy; macroeconomic analysis; exchange rates; patterns of consumption, relative prices; editor of The Vienna Institute Monthly Report
 
     
Johannes Pöschl
international trade, innovation and technology transfer, labour markets; software development
 
     
Josef Pöschl
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey; macroeconomic analysis; agriculture in Central, East and Southeast Europe
 
     
Sándor Richter
Hungary; EU budget, new EU member states; East-West economic integration
 
     
Roman Römisch
regional economic developments; tax competition, national accounts & macroeconomic analysis
 
     
Robert Stehrer
labour markets; wage, productivity and trade structures; catching-up processes in the global economy
 
     
Roman Stöllinger
international trade
 
     
Waltraut Urban
China; industry and industrial structural change in Central and Eastern Europe; comparisons with Asian development patterns
 
     
Hermine Vidovic
Croatia, Slovenia; labour markets and social policy
 
     
 
 
 


 
 


 
 


 
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