Dr.Michael Spindelegger - Curriculum Vitae

1965 – 1969
Primary School in Hinterbrühl – Lower Austria

1969 – 1977
Grammar School – Bundesrealgymnasium Mödling

1977 – 1978
Military Service in Mautern and Götzendorf (Officer’s Training)

1978 – 1983
University of Vienna – Law Faculty  (1983 Graduation as Doktor iuris – Doctor of Law)

1982 – 1983
Assistant Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law – University of Vienna

1983 – 1984
Judges’ Assistant at several Courts of Law in Vienna

1984 – 1987
Civil Servant for the Federal State Lower Austria – employed in the Headquarter as well as in the Country Councils of Gmünd and Baden

1987 – 1990
Member in the Cabinet of the Minister of Defence

1990 – 1993
Trainee Programme at the Federation of Austrian Industrialists, including Work Experience at Alcatel Austria, Siemens and the Austrian Power Industry, as well as a four-months Internship in Germany

1993 – 1994
GiroCredit (Austrian bank), employed within the Secretary of the Board; Strategic Management

1989 – 1991
Speaker on European Relations at the ÖAAB, the Employees’ Association of the Austrian People’s Party – ÖVP

1991 - 2009
Deputy Head of the ÖAAB

1992 – 1993
Member of the Federal Chamber in the Austrian Parliament

12/1993 - 3/1995
MP – Member of the National Assembly

01/1995 – 10/1996
MEP – Member of the European Parliament (ÖVP-EVP), Brussels, Member in the Parliamentary Committee on Economics, Currency Issues and Industrial Policy, Deputy Member in the Committee for Social Issues and Employment

since 10/1996
MP – Member of the National Assembly in the Austrian Parliament

10/1996 – 10/2006
Party’s Speaker on Foreign Affairs, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs

since 07/1998
Chairman of the NÖAAB (ÖAAB of Lower Austria)

01/2000 – 1/2007
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

03/2000 – 10/2006
Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader of the Austrian Peoples Party

01/2002 – 10/2006
Head of the Austrian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

10/2006 – 11/2008
2nd President of the Austrian National Council

Since 2 December 2008
Federal Minister for European and International Affairs

2009 - 2011
Head of the ÖAAB

Since 21 April 2011
Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and Head of ÖVP