Waltraut Urban

Ms. Waltraut Urban is a Senior Research Associate at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.
Currently, her research interest focuses on China in the global economy, the Chinese New Silk Road Initiative, economic relations between the EU and China, respectively, between Austria and China.
Ms. Urban was a researcher at wiiw from 1995-2011, dealing with China's economic development on the one hand and industrial restructuring in the Central- and East European countries on the other.
She has published many articles and given numerous lectures in that field, including courses at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Vienna, and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz.
In prior positions, she was an economist at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (AIIA).
She has obtained her master's degree in economics from the University of Vienna.