Honored Persons

 

Ewald Nowotny

Univ. Dr. Ewald Nowotny was born in Vienna in 1944. He studied law and political science at the University of Vienna and economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) and received his doctorate in law at the University of Vienna in 1967. Ewald Nowotny has been Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) since 2008 and member of the Council of the European Central Bank (ECB Governing Council). He is also a member of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and has been a member of the Steering Committee (Steering Committee of the ESRB) since June 2012. Prior to his appointment to the top of the OeNB in September 2008, Ewald Nowotny held a number of leadership positions in the financial industry. From 2006 to 2007 he was Director General of the BAWAG P.S.K. Group, before that - from 1999 to 2003 - Vice President and Member of the Board of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg. Ewald Nowotny was an assistant at the Department of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Linz under Prof. Kurt W. Rothschild.