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Robert Holzmann (bornFebruary 27,1949, inLeoben,Austria) is an Austrianeconomist[1] who was Governor of Austria’s central bank, theOesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) from 2019 to 2025.[2][3] His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.
From 1997 to 2011, he held various positions at theWorld Bank inWashington, D.C., United States, including Sector Director (1997–2009), Research Director (2009–2011) and ActingSenior Vice President (2002–2003). Before and thereafter he held positions inacademia andinternational organizations.
From 1985, Robert Holzmann worked for theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) inParis, France, and from 1988 as a senior economist for theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA. In 1992, he assumed a full professorship in International Economic Relations and European Economics atSaarland University inSaarbrücken, Germany, where he also served as Executive Director of theEuropa-Institut. In 1997,World Bank PresidentJames D. Wolfensohn appointed Robert Holzmann Sector Director and Sector Board Head in Social Protection and Labor at theWorld Bank inWashington, D.C., USA. In 2002–2003, he also served as Acting Senior Vice President of the World Bank, and from 2009 as a Research Director. In addition, he was a long-term head of theLudwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) for the analysis of economic policy activities in Vienna, Austria.
In 2003, Robert Holzmann became Research Fellow at today’sIZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, and he is also Research Network Fellow ofCESifo inMunich,Germany. He also held visiting professorships, inter alia, atHitotsubashi University,Tokyo, Japan (1991), thePontifical Catholic University of Chile,Santiago de Chile (1995), theSouthwestern University of Finance and Economics,Chengdu, China (honorary professorship, 2010), and theUniversity of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia (honorary professorship, 2013). From 2012 to 2015, he held a foundation chair at theUniversity of Malaya inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he became Distinguished Research Fellow in 2016.
In September 2019, Robert Holzmann became Governor of theOesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). In this capacity, he was a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB),[4] Austria’s governor on the International Monetary Fund’s Board of Governors[5] and member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). In addition, he attended the Governors’ meetings of theBank for International Settlements (BIS).
Holzmann published 39 books, 94 contributions to books, 48 articles in refereed journals, 29 articles in non-refereed economic policy journals, 22 other publications and numerous discussion papers, research papers and strategic papers inGerman,English,French andSpanish. A number of books and articles have been translated intoArabic,Chinese, German,Russian and Spanish.
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