Prof. Martin Kocher

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Prof. Martin Kocher is Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and member of the ECB Governing Council since September 2025. He held the positions of Austrian Federal Minister of Labor from 2021 to 2022 and Federal Minster of Labor and the Economy from 2022 to March 2025. Previously, he was Scientific Director of the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies, President of the Fiscal Advisory Council and Chairman of the Statistics Council. He is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna and has held academic positions at universities in Munich, East Anglia, Amsterdam, Göteborg, Brisbane and Innsbruck, where he obtained his doctorate.