Aurel Schubert
Aurel Schubert was director-general of the European Central Bank’s statistics department between 2010 and 2018. He was also chairman of the Statistics Committee of the European System of Central Banks and chairman of the Contact Group on Data of the European Systemic Risk Board, co-chair of the European Statistical Forum and vice-chairman of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics. Previously, Schubert worked for 25 years at the National Bank of Austria, 13 years as director of statistics. He has been member of several Austrian and European statistical bodies.
He holds a PhD in economics from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Schubert has experience in the academic field as honorary professor for economics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and as a lecturer at several academic institutions. He holds several Austrian and international advisory functions. He is the author of the book The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931, as well as writing more than 50 articles on central banking, European monetary policy, statistics and monetary history.
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Articles by Aurel Schubert
Book notes: Stable banks in challenging times, by Andreas Dombret
Dombret’s stability and rule-based compass should be that for every aspiring central banker, worldwide
AnaCredit: banking with (pretty) big data
The supranational credit database in Europe will help policy-makers and banks assess cross-border risk when it goes live in 2018, writes Aurel Schubert, director-general of the European Central Bank’s statistics department
Devising effective data strategies to help inform policy decisions
The publication of the Irving Fisher Committee’s report on good data practices offers the potential for powerful data sharing, but more work needs to be done at the tactical and practical levels