The Ambassador

1979 – 1983                        

Law studies at the University of Vienna, graduated with a Doctorate of Law in January 1984

1983 – 1986                        

Tutor and assistant professor, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna

1984 / 85       

Post graduate studies in Comparative Constitutional Law, Université Paris II, Diplôme Supérieur

1986 – 1988                        

Research Assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court

September 1988                  

Entry into the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Legal Department

1990 – 1994                        

First Secretary / Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the United Nations in New York

1994 – 1997                        

Counsellor at the Austrian Embassy in Dublin

1997 – 2001                        

Head of the coordination desk for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and European Correspondent, Political Division, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna

2001 –2005                         

Consul General of Austria in Chicago

2005 – 2007                        

Austrian Ambassador to Malta

2007 - 2012                         

Director, Department III.2 (EU coordination – COREPER II, General Affairs Council and Foreign Affairs Council, European Council, EMU, EU budget), Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Vienna

Since January 2013             

Austrian Ambassador to Finland