Georg Lehecka is Hub-Manager of the Sustainable Finance Hub at the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), being responsible for the coordination of sustainable finance and sustainability risk issues, and is also an Expert in Sustainable Finance in Asset Management Supervision. In his role, he does represent the FMA in national and European committees and working groups on sustainable finance.

Before he joined the FMA in 2014, he not only worked in the financial market, including portfolio management for an impact investment fund, but also worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, where he also received a doctoral degree in economics. His academic background ranges from economics, finance, statistics, business law, philosophy and history from the University of Vienna, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.