committee

Michael Landesmann

Chairman

Was Scientific Director (now Senior Research Associate) of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) from 1996-2016 and is a university professor at JKU Linz. He has been Chairman of the Board of the Schumpeter Society since 2019.

judith kohlenberger

Deputy chairman

is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Social Policy and affiliated to the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU). She teaches at the University of Vienna and the FH Wien and writes regularly for the FALTER Think Tank. She has been on the board of the Schumpeter Society since 2019, has become general secretary in 2020 and deputy chairman in 2024.

martin zagler

Secretary general

is Full Professor of Economic Policy at UPO University of Eastern Piedmont in Novara (Italy). His fields of research are long-run economic growth and taxation. He has been on the board of the Schumpeter Society since 2023, and has become general secretary in 2024.

stephan maxonus

Treasurer

worked as Relationship Manager for CEE, Central Asia and the Middle East at Westdeutsche Landesbank, where he was Head of the Office of former Federal Chancellor Dr. Franz Vranitzky from 1998 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been Director for Private and Institutional Investors at Schoellerbank AG in Vienna.

Further members of the committee

Karl Aiginger

Christian Berger

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Birgit Niessner

Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell

auditor

Johann Taibl