General Council

President of the General Council

Vice President of the General Council

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