Rector of the Innsbruck Medical University: W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

The Rector is the Chairperson of the rectorship, which governs the university and represents it externally.
The Rector’s primary duties are as follows:

• • Highest academic Chairperson at the university
  • Forms the rectorship with the Vice-Rectors to lead the university as a team
  • Concludes the performance agreement with the responsible Federal Ministry as the basis for budgeting
  • Sets the framework for research, teaching and patient care
  • Cooperates with the hospital board to manage the university hospital
  • Implements the affirmative action for women policy

For details of other duties, powers and legal status, see the 2002 Austrian University Act (UG) (link to UG [in German] on the BMWF site).