Professor Georg Winckler has been Rector of the University of Vienna since 1999 and was elected President of the European University Association in 2005. He was previously President of the Austrian Rectors’ Conference (2000-05) and Vice-President of EUA (2001-05). He studied economics at the University of Princeton and at the University of Vienna, and has been a professor of economics at the University of Vienna since 1978, specialising in monetary and applied economics. He has also served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, Université de Fribourg, Comenius University of Bratislava and has worked as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. From 2004 to 2007 Georg Winckler was a member of EURAB (European Research Advisory Board); since March 2008 he has been a member of ERAB, the European Research Area Board.

Handbook articles by Georg Winckler:

• Widening participation: a collective challenge for European higher education (B 1.6-1)