Johannes Turner is Director Statistics Department of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), which is in charge of compiling and analyzing monetary, interest rate, supervisory and external statistics and maintaining the Austrian Central Credit Register. He is a member of the Statistics Committee of the ESCB, an Advisory Board Member of Statistics Austria, a member of the ERP (European Recovery Programme) Audit Committee and a representative in the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics in Luxembourg. Since 2013 Johannes Turner has been representative in the ESF (European Statistical Forum). In 2014 and 2015 he chaired the ECB taskforce for the harmonised Reporting Framework for Banks in Europe (ERF). He was promoted to his current position in June 2010 after having worked on banking supervision at the OeNB for 18 years, ultimately as Head of the Banking Analysis Division.

Johannes Turner holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Vienna.