Thomas Wieser (economist)

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Thomas Wieser (right) with Finance Minister Hartwig Löger (2018)

Thomas Wieser (born November 17, 1954 in Bethesda , Maryland ) is an Austrian economist. From 2012 to 2018 he was chairman of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), a working group of the Eurogroup .

Life

Thomas Wieser was born the son of an Austrian professor of biology and a physiologist from England. Friedrich Wieser and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk are among his ancestors . He spent his childhood in Vienna and his youth in Innsbruck , where he studied economics at the University of Innsbruck . He graduated with a master's degree in 1979. Then studied as a postgraduate with a scholarship from the Fulbright program in 1980/81 at the University of Colorado Boulder and 1981/82 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

After working at the International Bank for Foreign Trade (1982–1984), working on a scientific research project, and from 1985 at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva , he worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance from 1989 , where he was a confidante of the minister at the time Ferdinand Lacina was true . There he was involved in the introduction of the euro and the development of the European Central Bank , at that time as the deputy of Hans Dietmar Schweisgut . From 1999 to 2012, he was the Finance Ministry as section chief in charge of economic policy and financial markets and international economic policy.

From 2005 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Committee on Financial Markets of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), from 2009 to 2011 and since 2012 he has been Chairman of the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union . Since 2012 he has been chairman of the Eurogroup Working Group in Brussels , a preparatory body for the Eurogroup . In July 2017 it was announced that he would not extend his contract, which ran until January 31, 2018. The Dutchman Hans Vijlbrief succeeded him on February 1, 2018 as head of the Eurogroup Working Group.

In mid-2019, he was named by the SPÖ and NEOS as a possible EU Commissioner for the von der Leyen Commission . Wieser is close to the SPÖ. In November 2019, he was appointed chairman of an EU expert group on the future of the Capital Markets Union .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Wieser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Austrian Wieser remains Euro chief coordinator . Article dated November 9, 2015, accessed July 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Europe Actions: Federal Chancellery Austria: Profile Thomas Wieser ( Memento from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Courier: Mister Euro, Thomas Wieser, warns of distribution war . Article dated July 31, 2014, accessed July 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Thomas Wieser, Euro-Reformer . Article dated June 8, 2010, accessed July 11, 2017.
  5. ^ Forum Alpbach: Mag. Thomas WIESER . Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  6. ^ A commissioner on the waiting list Die Presse , May 24, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2019
  7. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Thomas Wieser - "Mr. Super-Euro" from Austria . Article dated December 16, 2011, accessed July 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: Eurogroup loses leading figures . Article dated July 11, 2017, accessed July 11, 2017.
  9. ↑ Hans Vijlbrief: New head official of the Euro Group . Article dated December 14, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ Open race: Who will be Austria's EU Commissioner? July 6, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Difficult case: red-black poker for the EU commissioner. July 6, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ "The world was on fire, not the euro" Trend , 18/2018, accessed on October 14, 2019
  13. ↑ Tug of war for the new EU Commissioner oe24 , July 7, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019
  14. ↑ Austrian Wieser heads EU expert group on capital markets union. In: Kurier.at . November 18, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wieser, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethesda, Maryland