Brigitte Unger

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Brigitte Unger (* 1955 in Güssing ) is an Austrian economist and social scientist . Unger has been Professor of Public Finance at Utrecht University , Utrecht School of Economics , since 2002 .

Career

Unger first studied singing at the Vienna University of Music from 1973–1975 and then French literature at the Sorbonne , Paris. In 1977 she began studying economics at the University of Vienna parallel to her French and Russian interpreting studies, which she graduated with a diploma in 1981 . 1982–1984 she followed a post-graduate training at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna and wrote her dissertation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on the subject of "The Effects of Financing National Debt and Budget Deficits". During her subsequent postdoctoral studies, Unger was a scholarship holder at Harvard University , at the Center for European Studies, as a Joseph Schumpeter and Fulbright Fellow and at Stanford University as a Dr. Maria Schaumayer scholarship holder. She spent further research stays in Berkeley , at the European University of Florence and at the Dutch institute NIAS. In 1998 he completed his habilitation on the subject of “Room for Maneuver. Choices Left for National Economic Policy Making “at the Vienna University of Economics and Business at the chair of Professor Ewald Nowotny . In the same year Brigitte Unger was initially appointed associate professor for economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, until in 2002 she was given the chair of finance at the University of Utrecht .

Brigitte Unger has been an advisor to the Dutch government on money laundering since 2007 , and was also a member of the Financial Equalization Council. In February 2008 Unger became a member of the EU working group for the creation of statistical indicators for money laundering in the DG Home Affaires. Unger has been a member of the Council for Security Co-operation in the Pacific-Asian Region (CSCAP) since 2009. At the same time, Unger is a member of the EU working groups Asset Recovery Offices and Virtual Currencies, DG Home Affaires of the European Commission, advisor to UNODC and the Panama Commission in the European Parliament .

From February 2012 to October 2015 Brigitte Unger was also the Scientific Director of the Institute for Economic and Social Sciences (WSI) at the Hans Böckler Foundation . Since November 2016 she has been leading the three-year EU Horizon 2020 project on tax evasion, COFFERS, Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators. Unger's research focuses on the public sector, institutional economics, macroeconomics , economic and international financial policy , national debt , tax evasion and money laundering .

In March 2020, she was Finance Minister Gernot Bluemel the Council of Ministers as a member of the General Council of the Austrian National Bank proposed for a period of five years.

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  1. ↑ Three new OeNB General Councilors appointed. In: ORF.at . March 4, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Augustin, Brigitte (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Gussing