Foreign Policy Adviser to the Board of the Federation of Austrian Industries. He worked as a representative of Austria for the UN in New York (1968-1973) and at the Embassy in Cairo. He was an Ambassador in Nairobi and Permanent Representative to the UN-Organizations for Environment and Town Planning. He was Director of Secretariat General in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He was Permanent Representative of Austria to the European Union (1999-2007). He graduated from the Universities of Vienna, Grenoble and Cambridge in law, and also from the Collège de Bruges in European law and Economics.
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