Christine Mayrhuber Becomes WIFO Deputy Director for External Relations

Born in Grieskirchen (Upper Austria), Mayrhuber (55 years old) has been working in the WIFO Research Group "Labour Economics, Income and Social Security" since 1999. Her research focuses on issues of income development and income distribution, the structure and financing of pension insurance, the redistributive effects of welfare state structures, and the new challenges for social security mechanisms in changing labour markets and under destandardised income patterns. Her projects for national and European clients (European Parliament) include issues of old-age security from a gender perspective.

She is a long-standing member of the Commission on Long-Term Pension Security in Austria. After studying economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, she was a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Studies before joining WIFO. Christine Mayrhuber is a recipient of the Käthe-Leichter Prize.

"Demographic change is one of the central challenges facing our society. With Christine Mayrhuber, the Management Board has gained a highly connected and experienced researcher and pension expert who will now contribute even more intensively to the public discourse," said WIFO Director Gabriel Felbermayr, who also took this opportunity to thank Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger for her extraordinary commitment. "Famira-Mühlberger has modernised the Institute's public image in an extremely successful and sustainable way.

With Felbermayr and the deputy directors Alexander Loidl (Finance and Human Resources) and Michael Peneder (Research) Christine Mayrhuber completes the four-member management board of the Institute.