Dr. Martin Wagner is an Econometrician and Economist who develops new econometric techniques for a wide range of topics such as portfolio management and optimization, capital stock estimation, the environment-growth nexus and economic convergence.

He has significant experience in applied economic analysis and policy making, having served as the Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Slovenia. During his tenure, he is responsible for the economic analysis, research, financial stability and macroprudential policy, financial statistics, and international relations.

Dr. Wagner continues to work with the Central Bank of Slovenia as Chief Economic Adviser to the Governor and serves as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana. He has successfully managed applied and theory-oriented projects funded by both public institutions and private companies. Some past consulting projects include the European Central Bank, the Austrian National Bank, the Bank of Slovenia and OLZ and Partners Asset and Liability Management.

He is also currently the Vice Dean and Full Professor for Economics - heading the Quantitative Economics Division - at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Dr. Wagner held previous faculty positions as the Full Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at TU Dortmund University in Germany and Full Professor of Empirical Economics and Applied Econometrics at the University of Graz in Austria.

Dr. Wagner received his PhD-equivalent (Dr.techn.) degree with a thesis in econometric theory from the Technical University of Vienna, his “Habilitation” in Economics from the University of Bern in Switzerland, his MSc-equivalent (Dipl.Ing.) degree in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna, and his Diploma degree in Economics from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.