Thomas Wieser
Thomas Wieser was a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. He was President of the Euro Working Group and of the European Financial Committee of the European Union until February 2018. The role had been a full-time position since October 2011, following a decision to make it so by EU Heads of state. He previously chaired the Committee between March 2009 and March 2011.
Before becoming President of the EWG/EFC, he was Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets in the Ministry of Finance, Vienna. There he was in charge of macro-economic policy, international and EU affairs, financial market legislation, and export credits and guarantees.
He also has a strong academic background in Economics. After a degree in Economics (University of Innsbruck), he pursued post-graduate studies in theoretical and mathematical economics, and taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder (Fulbright scholarship) as well as the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna.
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Featured work
When Greece was on the brink of euro exit: disaster averted, lessons learned
There are good arguments for greater European integration, but it must be built on trust, not spun out of crisis
Capital markets union - why now?
What is hindering the EU from achieving a Capital markets union?
Greening Europe’s post-COVID-19 recovery
This Blueprint includes some of the Group’s most prominent voices on the different aspects of the multidimensional issue of green recovery.
A new consensus for economic resilience
Is there a need for systemic reform of global economic governance?
All work
First Glance
08 July 2025
When Greece was on the brink of euro exit: disaster averted, lessons learned
There are good arguments for greater European integration, but it must be built on trust, not spun out of crisis
Podcast
27 March 2024
Capital markets union - why now?
What is hindering the EU from achieving a Capital markets union?
Annual meetings
04 September 2019
Bruegel Annual Meetings 2019, 4-5 September
The 2019 Annual Meetings featured the launch of Bruegel's memos to the new European Leadership, proposing how to deal with future policy challenges
Blueprint
23 February 2022
Greening Europe’s post-COVID-19 recovery
This Blueprint includes some of the Group’s most prominent voices on the different aspects of the multidimensional issue of green recovery.
Podcast
01 December 2021
A new consensus for economic resilience
Is there a need for systemic reform of global economic governance?
Report
14 October 2021
Global Economic Resilience: Building Forward Better
A roadmap for systemic economic reform calling for step-change in global economic governance to increase resilience and build forward better from econ
Event
09 February 2021
Mobilising equity finance for Europe’s recapitalisation challenge
At this event we will discuss what sources of equity finance can help Europe emerge from the recession.
Blog post
03 February 2021
The post-coronavirus fiscal policy questions Europe must answer
Europe’s policymakers will have to take a series of decisions in the months ahead, in order to reinstate, and possibly reform, the bloc’s fiscal ruleb
Blog post
07 December 2020
Can the gap in the Europe’s internal market for banking services be bridged?
The European Union has made significant progress to a more unified banking market but frictions remain between euro and non-euro countries. Without a
External publication
12 October 2020
What role for the European Semester in the recovery plan?
In this paper, the author looks at the implications arising from the focus of the Recovery and Resilience Plans in the context of the European Semeste