Ursula Jakubek has been the Executive Vice-President of the FWF Executive Board since June 2021. Prior to joining the FWF, she served as the Director of Finance and Human Resources at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and before that was Authorised Officer and Global Head of Finance & Accounting at Speech Processing Solutions GmbH and worked many years for Philips Austria. The native of Linz studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.