| Academic Appointments |
1970 | Fellow in Economics, St John's College, Oxford |
1971-1978 | Lecturer in Economics, University of Oxford |
1975 | Investment Officer, St John's College, Oxford |
1981-1986 | Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London |
1979-1981 | Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London |
1986-1991 | Director of Centre for Business Strategy, London Business School |
1986-1996 | Professor of Economics |
1997-1999 | Peter Moores Director, Said Business School, University of Oxford |
2000 | Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, London |
| Business Activities |
1986-1996 | Founder and Executive Chairman, London Economics Limited, London |
1997-2000 | Director, London Economics Limited, London |
| Other Business Activities |
1982-1995 | Director, Govett Strategic Investment Trust plc |
1983-1990 | Director, London Board, Halifax Building Society |
1987-1993 | Director, Acorn Investment Trust plc |
| Director, Acorn Investment Trust plc |
1986-1988 | Director, Shire Trust Limited |
1988-1995 | Director, Investors, Compensation Scheme |
1991-1997 | Director, Halifax Building Society |
1996-2000 | Director, Halifax plc |
1993-2003 | Director, Foreign & Colonial Special Utilities Investment Trust plc |
1994-2005 | Chairman, SVM UK Active Fund plc |
1994 | Director, Value and Income Trust plc |
2004-2008 | Chairman, Clear Capital Ltd |
2004 | Director, Law Debenture Corporation plc |
2008 | Director, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust |
since 2012 | Director, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) |
2012 | Director, Buddi |
1977 | Employment in the economic-science department of the Austrian Chamber of Labour |
1980 | Degree in Economics, University of Vienna |
1983-1992 | Member of Parliament |
1990-1992 | Chairwoman of parliamentary committee for petitions and citizens' initiatives |
| Deputy chair of the SPÖ´s parliamentary faction: deputy chair of the audit office committee and the budget committee of parliament; member of the finance committee; member of the sub-committee for European integration |
| Permanent observer with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament |
1992-1994 | Minister of State for European Integration and Development Cooperation |
1994-1995 | Minister of State for European Affairs |
1995-1997 | Secretary General of the SPÖ |
| Member of Parliament |
1997-2000 | Executive City Councillor of Finance, Economic Affairs and Vienna Public Enterprises of the City of Vienna |
2001-2010 | Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG Österreich |
2005-2010 | Chief Executive Officer, Siemens AG Österreich |
2008-2010 | In addition to CEO of Siemens AG Österreich: Cluster CEO for Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine |
since 2010 | Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG |
| In 1999, Peter Fischer joined the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001 to 2007, he worked in Russia as an economics correspondent and bureau chief for Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, based in Moscow. From 2007 to 2010, he was chief correspondent for China and bureau chief for the NZZ Beijing Office. He returned to Zurich in autumn 2010 where he now heads the economic editing board. |
| Peter Fischer studied economics, business economics, international law and political sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He also obtained an Advanced Studies Certificate in International Economic Policy Research from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. He has also been a research fellow at the Hamburg World Economics Institute (HWWA), the Europa Kolleg Hamburg and the Spacial Modelling Centre in Kiruna, Sweden. He is the author of several books and publications on questions of economic integration and migration, new economic geography and economic policy. |