56 Notable alumni of Vienna University of Economics and Business
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Vienna University of Economics and Business is ranked #833 in the world and #9 in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from Vienna University of Economics and Business sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Vienna University of Economics and Business won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Reinhard Pisec
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Reinhard Pisec is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2010.
2. Felix Hnat
1982-. (aged 44)
animal welfare
Felix Hnat is an Austrian animal rights activist and chairman of the Vegan Society Austria (Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich, VGÖ). Hnat was the second defendant alongside Martin Balluch in the controversial 2010–2011 animal rights activist trial at Wiener Neustadt, where he was eventually acquitted of all charges.
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3. Moritz Neumüller
1972-. (aged 54)
writer
exhibition curator
university teacher
photographer
Moritz Neumüller is a curator, educator and writer in the field of photography and new media.
4. Maria Schaumayer
1931-2013 (aged 82)
banker
economist
politician
Maria Schaumayer was an Austrian economist and politician, a member of the Austrian People's Party. From 1990 to 1995, she served as the Governor of the Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). In 1996, she was named an Honorary Citizen of Vienna, and in 2000, she was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of...
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5. Bettina Vollath
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Bettina Vollath is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until 2022.
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6. Wolf Klinz
1941-. (aged 85)
politician
Wolf Klinz is a German politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), from 2004 until 2014 and from 2017 until 2019.
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7. Christoph Meineke
1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Christoph Meineke is a German non-party politician and since January 2007 the first directly elected strong mayor of the municipality of Wennigsen (Deister).
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8. Karlheinz Rüdisser
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Karlheinz Rüdisser is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), who, since December 2011, is the state administrator of Vorarlberg.
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9. Isabella Kresche
1998-. (aged 28)
association football player
Isabella Kresche is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for USL Super League club Tampa Bay Sun FC and the Austria national team.
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10. Zygmunt Vetulani
1950-. (aged 76)
computer scientist
computational linguist
mathematician
engineer
fencer
Zygmunt Michał Vetulani was a Polish diplomat and economist. He was a general consul of Rzeczpospolita in Kaliningrad, Baghdad and Rio de Janeiro.
11. Karin Scheele
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Karin Scheele is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 till 2008. In December 2008, she entered the regional government of her native Land of Lower Austria to become secretary in charge of Health and Social Affairs.
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12. Andreas Salcher
1960-. (aged 66)
writer
politician
Andreas Salcher is a former Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), co-founder of the Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule, consultant and author.
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13. Leopold Windtner
1950-2025 (aged 75)
businessperson
sports official
Leopold "Leo" Windtner was an Austrian businessman who was the general manager of Energie AG Oberösterreich and honorary president of the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußball-Bund, ÖFB).
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14. Claus Raidl
1942-2024 (aged 82)
manager
Claus Raidl was an Austrian banker. He was president of the Austrian National Bank from 2008 to 2018. Raidl died on 10 December 2024, at the age of 82.
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15. Claudia Schmied
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Claudia Schmied is an Austrian politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
16. Barbara Kappel
1965-. (aged 61)
office manager
politician
Barbara Kappel is an Austrian politician. From 2010 to 2014 she was a member of the FPÖ in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council. She then moved, initially as a non-attached member, to the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group until she left in June 2019.
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17. Franziska Gminder
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Franziska Gminder is a German politician for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of Bundestag. She is member of the völkisch-nationalistic faction "the wing" within her party.
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18. Angelika Winzig
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Angelika Winzig is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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19. Walter Rothensteiner
1953-. (aged 73)
banker
Walter Rothensteiner is the Chairman of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank.
20. Mirko Kovats
1948-. (aged 78)
entrepreneur
Mirko Kovats is an Austrian businessman and investor mainly known for his role as founder, majority owner (indirectly, through his private foundation known as "MUST") and chairman of A-TEC Industries, which was one of the largest industrial groups in Austria until it went bankrupt in 2014.
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21. Andreas Hanger
1968-. (aged 58)
general manager
politician
Andreas Hanger is an Austrian politician of the People's Party. He has been a member of the National Council since 2013, and has served as leader of the People's Party in the Amstetten District since 2015.
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22. Cathy Zimmermann
1981-. (aged 45)
television presenter
radio personality
news presenter
Austrian television host Cathy Zimmermann was born on October 6, 1981, in Vienna, Austria.
23. Andrian Candu
1975-. (aged 51)
politician
Andrian Candu is a former Moldovan politician, who served as President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 2015 and 2019. He left political life and went back to consultancy business, being focused on advisory and business project development, where previously he has built a successful career. Candu served as Vice President of the Parliament of the Republic...
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24. Tomasz Froelich
1988-. (aged 38)
politician
association football player
Tomasz Mariusz Froelich is a German politician of Alternative for Germany (AfD) who was elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2024. He has also served as vice chair of the Young Alternative since 2019.
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25. Hikmet Ersek
1960-. (aged 66)
businessperson
Hikmet Ersek is a Turkish businessman who is the former CEO of Western Union. He is also the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Denver for Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, in the United States.
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26. Atanas Pekanov
1991-. (aged 35)
university teacher
economist
Atanas Angelov Pekanov is a Bulgarian economist and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister in 2021 and from 2022 to 2023. A political independent, his portfolio was the management of funds by the European Union.
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27. Ferdinand Lacina
1942-. (aged 84)
politician
Ferdinand Lacina is an Austrian politician. He served as finance minister from 1986 to 1995.
28. Max Auschnitt
1888-1957 (aged 69)
businessperson
Max Carol Auschnitt, also known as Ausschnitt, Auschnit or Aușnit, was a Romanian businessman and political figure, one of his country's most prominent industrialists during the interwar period. Born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, he spent much of his youth abroad, returning in the 1910s to set up business as an importer of sheet iron, greatly expanding his father's fortune after...
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29. Christoph Chorherr
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Christoph Chorherr is an Austrian politician. From 1996 until December 1997 he was federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.
30. Andreas J. Köstenberger
1957-. (aged 69)
editor
theologian
Andreas Johannes Köstenberger is an Austrian-American Biblical scholar, who was Research Professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Until 2018, he was Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Kostenberger now teaches in an adjunct position at BJU Seminary in Greenville, SC. His primary research interests are the...
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31. Christoph Badelt
1951-. (aged 75)
university teacher
economist
Christoph Badelt is the current director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was the Vienna University of Economics and Business's vice-chancellor from March 2002 until September 2015.
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32. Kosta Vojinović
1891-1917 (aged 26)
gendarme
merchant
military personnel
military officer
Kosta Vojinović, known by his nickname Kosovac (Косовац), was a Serbian soldier who fought in the Balkan Wars and World War I, most notably as a leader of the Toplica Uprising.
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33. Petra Steger
1987-. (aged 39)
basketball player
politician
Petra Steger is an Austrian politician and member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). She was a member of the National Council from 2023 to 2024. She is also a former professional basketball player.
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34. Gerhard Karner
1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Gerhard Karner is an Austrian politician currently serving as minister of the interior. From 2003, Karner was a member of the Lower Austrian state legislature. From 2003 to 2015, he was managing director of the People's Party of Lower Austria (VPNÖ). Following the 2015 mayoral election, he became mayor of Texingtal and retained this position until 2021.
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35. Andrea Kdolsky
1962-. (aged 64)
health economist
medical specialist
non-fiction writer
politician
Andrea Kdolsky is an Austrian physician and retired politician (Non-party, until 2023 ÖVP) who was Minister for Health, Family and Youth in the Gusenbauer government.
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36. Margarete Schramböck
1970-. (aged 56)
economist
manager
social scientist
politician
Margarete Schramböck is an Austrian business manager and politician who served as minister of digital and economic affairs in the Second Kurz government, the Schallenberg government and the Nehammer government from January 2020 to May 2022; she previously served in this position from December 2017 to June 2019 in the First Kurz government. From May 2016 to October 2017, she...
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37. Elisabeth Gürtler
1950-. (aged 76)
entrepreneur
Diploma of Business Administration
Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner is an Austrian businesswoman. She is managing director of the Hotel Sacher, Vienna's most famous hotel.
38. Julia Ebner
1991-. (aged 35)
political adviser
scientist
journalist
researcher
author
Julia Ebner is an Austrian researcher and author based in London. She has written the books The Rage: the Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists and Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over.
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39. Marc Jongen
1968-. (aged 58)
journalist
philosopher
university teacher
politician
Marc Stephan Jongen is a German politician (AfD). From 2003 to 2017 he was a research assistant for philosophy at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.
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40. Claudia Gamon
1988-. (aged 38)
politician
Claudia Angela Gamon is an Austrian politician and former student union functionary who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. Gamon has been a member of the National Council of Austria since October 2015.
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41. Valerie Hackl
1982-. (aged 44)
athlete
politician
manager
Valerie Hackl is an Austrian businesswoman and the managing director of Austro Control. In 2019, she briefly served as minister of infrastructure.
42. Madeleine Petrovic
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Madeleine Petrovic is an Austrian politician. From 1994 to 1996 she was federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.
43. Peter Löscher
1957-. (aged 69)
entrepreneur
chief executive officer
Peter Löscher is an Austrian manager who was the CEO of Siemens from 2007 until 2013. As of 2017, Löscher remains as the only CEO to be hired from outside the conglomerate in the 170-year history of Siemens. Before joining Siemens, he worked as president for Global Human Health at global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.
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44. Hans Peter Haselsteiner
1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Hans Peter Haselsteiner is an Austrian industrialist and former politician.
45. Gernot Blümel
1981-. (aged 45)
politician
Gernot Blümel is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Austria's finance minister from 2020 to 2021, having announced his resignation shortly after Alexander Schallenberg's resignation on 2 December 2021. Since 2015, he has been the chairman of the Vienna branch of the ÖVP. Prior, he was Chancellery minister for European Affairs, Art, Culture, and...
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46. Thomas Klestil
1932-2004 (aged 72)
diplomat
economist
politician
Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as the president of Austria from 1992 until his death in 2004. He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1998.
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47. Franz Vranitzky
1937-. (aged 89)
basketball player
economist
banker
politician
Franz Vranitzky is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1997.
48. Johanna Mikl-Leitner
1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Johanna Mikl-Leitner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and since 2017 the governor of Lower Austria.
49. Hannes Androsch
1938-2024 (aged 86)
minister
politician
entrepreneur
auditor
tax advisor
Johannes "Hannes" Androsch was an Austrian businessman, consultant and Social Democrat politician. He served as an Austrian Finance Minister from 1970 to 1981, and as Vice Chancellor from 1976 to 1981. As a banker, from 1981 to 1988 he was the general director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein (Austria’s leading bank at that time), and subsequently an advisor to the World Bank....
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50. Vlad Voiculescu
1983-. (aged 43)
politician
economist
Vlad Vasile Voiculescu is a Romanian politician and former Romanian Minister of Health in the Cîțu Cabinet (affiliated with the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party, PLUS) whose term lasted from 23 December 2020 until he was revoked on 14 April 2021 by PNL Prime Minister Florin Cîțu. He formerly served in the same position in the Cioloș Cabinet between May...
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51. Hartwig Löger
1965-. (aged 61)
businessperson
politician
Hartwig Löger is an Austrian politician and former business executive who served as minister of finance from 2017 to 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria. On 22 May 2019, following the Ibiza affair, he was named vice chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as acting chancellor after Austria's first...
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52. Wolfgang Porsche
1943-. (aged 83)
businessperson
business executive
Wolfgang Heinz Porsche is a German-Austrian manager and a member of the Porsche family. He is a shareholder and chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE as well as of Porsche AG. He is the youngest son of Ferdinand (Ferry) Porsche and Dorothea Reitz. His oldest brother is Ferdinand (Butzi) Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911.
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53. Jakov Milatović
1986-. (aged 40)
civil servant
Jakov Milatović is a Montenegrin politician and economist who is the incumbent president of Montenegro, serving since May 2023. He previously served as the minister of economic development in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić from 2020 to 2022, and as an economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Podgorica. He was a co-founder and until...
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54. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
1944-. (aged 82)
entrepreneur
businessperson
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is an Austrian businessman. From 1997 to 2008 he was the CEO of the Nestlé Group, chairman 2005-2017 and then chairman emeritus until April 2026. He is a former chairman of the Formula One Group. and served for a short time as ad interim chairman of the World Economic Forum in 2025.
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55. Dietrich Mateschitz
1944-2022 (aged 78)
entrepreneur
Dietrich Markwart Eberhart Mateschitz was an Austrian entrepreneur. He was the co-founder and 49% owner of Red Bull GmbH. In April 2022, Mateschitz's net worth was estimated at US$27.4 billion.
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56. Sophie Karmasin
1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Sophie Karmasin is an opinion researcher who was Minister for Families and Youth of Austria for four years.