Gerhard Hirczi

Managing Director // Vienna Business Agency

Gerhard Hirczi has been leading the Vienna Business Agency as its Managing Director since 2009. Following his graduation in macroeconomics at the University of Graz, he started his career with a Viennese consulting company in 1985. From there he changed into the Department of Economics of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and later joined the Cabinet of the former Prime Minister Franz Vranitzky as a consultant for economic policy. From 1997 to 2000, Gerhard Hirczi acted as Siemens Austria’s Secretary General, and later as Head of Group HR for Siemens´s CEE cluster, overseeing a staff of over 40.000.