Thomas Wieser is the Brussels-based former President of the Euro Working Group, and Chairman of the European Union's Economic and Financial Committee. Prior to that he was Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets of the Austrian Ministry of Finance, Vienna.

He has held a number of international functions, for example as Chair of the OECD Committee on Financial Markets, and as Chairman of the EFC from 2009 to 2011.

Thomas Wieser has a degree in Economics and has worked in the Banking sector, Research, international organisations and the public sector.