Karin Kneissl

Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs since December 2017. Since 1998 she has worked as an independent lecturer in the areas of international law, Middle Eastern history and the energy market at various universities. She is co-founder and vice president of Whistleblowing Austria as well as vice president of the Society for Politico-Strategic Studies, STRATEG. She plays an active role in numerous non-profit organisations in Austria and Lebanon. She speaks various foreign languages: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Hungarian and Spanish.