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Place of Birth: Leoben, Styria, Austria
About Robert Holzmann
- Robert Holzmann (born February 27, 1949, in Leoben, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian economist and current governor of Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
- Before, he held various positions at the University of Graz (1973–1975), University of Vienna (1975–1992), University of Saarland (1992–2003), and University of Malaya (2012-2015), and worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (1985–1987), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1988–1990), and the World Bank (1997–2011).
- At the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., he served as Sector Director (1997–2009), Research Director (2009–2011), and acting Senior Vice-President (2002–2003).
- From 1983 to 2005, he directed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Economic Policy Analyses (Vienna).
- He currently holds an honorary professorship at the University of New South Wales (Sydney).
- He is a Research Fellow at IZA (a German labor market think tank in Bonn) and CESifo (Munich).
- In 2014 he was elected Full Member (Fellow) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- He consults for governments, international organizations, and research institutions. Holzmann holds various editorial and advisory positions, including: Associate Editor? Journal of the Economics of Ageing; Associate Editor, Economics – E-journal; Member – Editorial and Advisory Board of International Journal of Social Security and Workers Compensation (Australia); Member – Editorial Board of Journal of Public Policy; Member – Council of Advisors, Population Europe; and Distinguished Associate – Atlantic International Economic Society.
- He has published 37 books and over 150 articles on social, fiscal, and financial policy issues.
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