General Council
President of the General Council

Harald Mahrer
President of the General Council of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
(appointed from September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2023)
Vice President of the General Council

Barbara Kolm
Vice President of the General Council of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
(appointed from September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2023)
General Council Members
As of May 2023
Erwin Hameseder
Chair of the Managing Board of Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien reg. Gen.m.b.H.
Term of office:March 6, 2020, to March 5, 2025
Christian Helmenstein
Chief Economist of the Federation of Austrian Industries, Head of the Cognion Research Network, University Professor at the Private University Schloss Seeburg
Term of office: March 1, 2023, to February 29, 2028
Stephan Koren
Chairman of Wüstenrot Wohnungswirtschaft reg. Gen.m.b.H.
Term of office: September 8, 2018, to September 7, 2023
Susanne Riess-Hahn
Chair of the Managing Board of Bausparkasse Wüstenrot AG
Term of office: March 6, 2020, to March 5, 2025
Sigrid Stagl
Economist at the the Institute for Ecological Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
Term of office: March 1, 2023, to February 29, 2028
Christoph Traunig
Executive Partner of St. Stephan Capital Partners
Term of office: September 1, 2018, to August 31, 2023
Brigitte Unger
Professor of Public Sector Economics at Utrecht School of Economics
Term of office: March 6, 2020, to March 5, 2025
Representatives delegated by the Central Staff Council to participate in negotiations on personnel, social and welfare matters pursuant to Article 22 paragraph 5 Nationalbank Act:
Birgit Sauerzopf
Chair of the Central Staff Council
Christian Schrödinger
Deputy Chair of the Central Staff Council
State Commissioner Harald Waiglein
Head of the Economic Policy and Financial Markets General Directorate at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Term of office: from July 1, 2012
Deputy State Commissioner Alfred Lejsek
Head of the Financial Markets Directorate at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Term of office: from April 1, 2016