Tobias Thomas
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Tobias Thomas (born April 30, 1975 in Duisburg) is a German economist and Director General of Statistics Austria.
He is also Vice Chair of the Austrian Productivity Board (PROD), and professor of economics, in particular of Public Finance and Political Economy, at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
According to the 2019 ranking of economists by Die Presse, F.A.Z., and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Thomas is the 5th most influential economist in Austria.[1] Since 2020, he has no longer been listed in accordance with the ranking’s regulations due to his position as Director General of Statistics Austria. Thomas is regularly present in national and international media, for example in BusinessDay,[2] Der Standard,[3] Die Presse,[4] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[5] Schweizer Monat,[6] Trend[7] and Wirtschaftswoche.[8] In 2022, Thomas was quoted 1,601 times in Austrian media only (2021: 1,413 times).[9]