The Directors General of Statistics Austria

        Dr. Gabriela Petrovic                     Dr. Konrad Pesendorfer

Gabriela Petrovic graduated in law and subsequently worked for many years as an academic assistant at the renowned Vienna Institute for Employment and Social Law. She then transferred from research to practice, moving from the position of Personnel Manager of a large retail group to a managerial role at a printing and media company. Since January 2000, as Director General of the Commercial division, she has been responsible for financial matters during the reorganisation of the Austrian Central Statistics Office into a federal institute under public law that is now hived off from the federal agency and has a stronger focus than previously on efficiency.

Mrs. Petrovic, who was born in Vienna, considers her most pressing responsibilities to be a management strategy that consistently covers its own costs, the ongoing use of appropriate management systems and the systematic use of effective personnel development measures through which the workforce’s existing potential can be enhanced and harmonised with the organisation’s objective of providing high-quality, economically compiled federal statistics.

Konrad Pesendorfer studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and holds a Ph.D. in economics. He was lecturer on international economics at the H.E.C. Business School in Paris and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris. He also took up a teaching position in economics at the University of Applied Sciences on European Economy and Business Management in Vienna.

Mr. Pesendorfer started his professional career as an economist at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and at the Federal Ministry of Finance, headed the Paris branch of the Austrian Central Bank and was Economic and Financial Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the OECD. When holding this position, he was elected Vice-Chair of the Economic and Development Review Committee of the OECD (EDRC), which draws up recommendations on economic policy for OECD member states. Mr. Pesendorfer gained international top management experience as Counsellor to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. From December 2008 to December 2009 Mr. Pesendorfer was the Economic Policy Adviser to Federal Chancellor of Austria, Werner Faymann, where the agendas of Statistics Austria also fell in Mr. Pesendorfer’s responsibility. As from January 2010, Mr. Pesendorfer was nominated Director General of Statistics Austria, being responsible for all statistical matters and international affairs. Mr. Pesendorfer is a member of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), as well as of the OECD’s Committee on Statistics (CStat). He also attends the UN’s Statistical Commission.