Aurel Schubert

Aurel Schubert has been Director-General of the European Central Bank’s Statistics Department since 2010. He is also Chairman of the Statistics Committee of the European System of Central Banks and Chairman of the Contact Group on Data of the European Systemic Risk Board, Co-Chair of the European Statistical Forum, and ViceChairman of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics. Previously, Mr. Schubert worked for 25 years at the National Bank of Austria, 13 years as Director of Statistics. He has been a member of several Austrian and European statistical bodies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of South Carolina (USA) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. He has experience in the academic field as Honorary Professor for Economics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and as a lecturer at several academic institutions. He is the author of several books and articles on central banking, European monetary policy, statistics, and monetary history.

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European Central Bank