Christoph Badelt

{{Short description|Austrian economist}} thumb|Christoph Badelt in 2021 '''Christoph Badelt''' (born 26 February 1951) is the current director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research<ref name=presse>{{cite web|title=Christoph Badelt tritt Amt als neuer WIFO-Leiter an (Christoph Badelt is the new director of WIFO) |url=http://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/pubid/59000 |accessdate=September 13, 2016}}</ref> and professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was the Vienna University of Economics and Business's vice-chancellor from March 2002<ref>{{cite book | last = Salzman | first = Michael | title = The World of Learning 2004 | publisher = Routledge | year = 2003 | page = 131 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jVURdQhlYp8C&q=Christoph+Badelt+Vienna&pg=PA131 | isbn = 1-85743-182-0}}</ref> until September 2015.<ref name=wu-url>{{cite web |title=Christoph Badelt WU Wien |url=https://www.wu.ac.at/sozialpolitik/team/wimi/badelt/ |accessdate=September 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001222640/https://www.wu.ac.at/sozialpolitik/team/wimi/badelt/ |archive-date=October 1, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He is an economist specializing in social policy. He has done notable work in the economics of nonprofit organizations.<ref name="SmithLipsky1995">{{cite book|author1=Steven Rathgeb Smith|author2=Michael Lipsky|title=Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRQPll3OZSoC&pg=PA251|accessdate=21 July 2012|date=1 April 1995|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62639-3|page=251n}}</ref>

In 1998, Badelt, among others, was commissioned by the Austrian Government to study the state of the family in Austria.<ref name="Hevi2002">{{cite book|author=Jacob Kofi Hevi|title=Cultural Values and the Family Beyond Year 2000: Principles, Policies and Reality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLthN9MaRvwC&pg=PA124|accessdate=21 July 2012|date=16 October 2002|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=978-1-58112-163-6|page=124}}</ref> He was elected Austrian ''Scientist of the Year'' in 1999.

Christoph Badelt has been president of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (''Fiskalrat'') since 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiskalrat – President and Vice Presidents |url=https://fiskalrat.at/en/organization/president-vice-presidents.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260212160815/https://fiskalrat.at/en/organization/president-vice-presidents.html |archive-date=2026-02-12 |access-date=2026-06-01 |website=www.fiskalrat.at |language=en}}</ref>

== External links ==

* [https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/mb201406_focus08.en.pdf Fiscal councils in EU countries] (2014)

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