The IHS announced this in a broadcast on Tuesday. The future scientific management will also receive a professorship at the University of Vienna, it said. In the coming weeks, however, a decision is to be made on an interim management, which will be in office for up to twelve months.
Franz Fischler, President of the Board of Trustees, welcomed the cooperation with the University of Vienna as a “historic step”. “With the decision to make a joint appointment, we are elevating the IHS to the top of Austrian social science research,” he said. Fischler hopes that the interim management will ensure “stable and secure” processes in the coming year. According to a report by the “Kurier” on Tuesday, the economist Martin Wagner from the University of Klagenfurt should be very popular.
Since the resignation of Martin Kocher in January 2021, the IHS has been looking for a successor. The successor was initially to be the German economist Lars Feld, but he canceled shortly before taking office. Recently, the head of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, Guntram Wolff, was also in conversation. Ultimately, however, Wolff also decided against the IHS.
Source: Nachrichten
