Helmenstein, Christian

is chief economist of the Federation of Austrian Industries and coordinator of the Cognion Research Network. He served as Deputy Chair of the BusinessEurope EcoFin-Committee. He has recently been appointed to chair the BusinessEurope Regional Policy Working Group and the EU Expert Group XG ECO. He published more than sixty journal articles and contributions to collective volumes, with a focus on finance, macroeconomics, and structural change. Furthermore, he has been responsible for a portfolio of about 800 research projects so far.