
Executive Director, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

| Personal Data | ||
| Born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria | ||
| Married, two children | ||
| Education | ||
| 1976-1980 | Master of Business, Economics and the Social Sciences, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration | |
| Professional Activities | ||
| since Sep. 2008 | Member of the Governing Board of the OeNB, Financial Stability, Banking Supervision and Statistics Department | |
| 1997-2008 | Director of the OeNB’s Financial Stability and Bank Inspections Department | |
| 1987-1997 | Head of the Office of the President of the OeNB | |
| 1983-1987 | Banking Analysis and Credit Supervision Office, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) | |
| 1978-1983 | Ittner retail business, Vienna | |
| Other Functions | ||
| since 2011 | Nonvoting member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) | |
| since 2011 | Vice Chair of the ESRB Advisory Technical Committee (ATC) | |
| since 2011 | Member of the European Banking Authority (EBA) | |
| since 2011 | Member of the ECB Financial Stability Committee (FSC) | |
| since 2002 | Member of the Financial Market Committee (FMC) established under the Austrian Financial Market Supervision Act | |
| since 2001 | Member of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) | |
| since 1999 | Vice President of the Secure Information Technology Center – Austria (A-SIT) | |
| Previous Functions | ||
| 2007-2010 | Chairman of the Task Force on Liquidity Stress Testing & Contingency Funding Plans of the ESCB Banking Supervision Committee (BSC) | |
| 2004-2010 | Member of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) | |
| 2004-2007 | Member of the CEBS Bureau | |
| 2003-2004 | Member of the Banking Advisory Committee (BAC) | |
| 2003-2004 | Member of the CEBS working group Groupe de Contact | |
| 2001-2007 | Chairman of the ESCB Working Group on Developments in Banking (WGDB) | |
| 1998-2010 | Acting member of the ESCB Banking Supervision Committtee (BSC) | |
| 1998-2003 | Alternate member of the Banking Advisory Committee (BAC) | |
| 1997-2002 | Member of the Expert Commission under the former Austrian Banking Act | |
| 1997-1998 | Member of the Working Group on Financial Fragility | |
Last up-date: February 2012