| 1992 | Post-Doctorate, Imperial College London, UK |
| 1994 | Assistant Researcher, School of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK |
| 1998 | Vice Dean, School of Environment, Tsinghua University |
| 1999 | Dean, School of Environment, Tsinghua University |
| 2006 | Vice President, Tsinghua University |
| 2007 | Vice President and the Secretary-General, Tsinghua University |
| 2010 | Vice President and the Dean of the Graduate School, the Graduate School at Shenzhen Tsinghua University |
| since 2012 | President, Tsinghua University |
| 1989-1991 | Research Associate, Princeton University |
| 1991-1992 | Long-Term Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 1992-2004 | Professor of Mathematical Physics, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam |
| since 2005 | Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Amsterdam |
| 2008-2012 | President, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| since 2009 | Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council |
| since 2012 | Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 1968 | Master of Laws, University of Helsinki |
| 1969-1970 | Social Affairs Secretary and Organizational Secretary of the National Union of Finnish Students |
| 1970-1979 | Lawyer with the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions SAK |
| 1974-1975 | Prime Minister s parliamentary secretary |
| 1977-1996 | Member of the Helsinki City Council |
| 1979-2000 | Member of Parliament |
| 1984-1986 | Chairman of the Parliamentary Social Affairs Committee |
| 1987-1990 | Minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, incl. Minister for Equality |
| 1989-1991 | Minister for Nordic Cooperation |
| 1990-1991 | Minister of Justice |
| 1991-1994 | Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Law Committee |
| 1995 | Chairman of the Parliamentary Grand Committee |
| 1995-2000 | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| 2000-2012 | President of the Republic of Finland |
| 1980 | Magister (M.A.), Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
| 1981-1982 | Research Assistant, Population Studies Center/Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1982 | M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1983 | Ph.D. (with distinction), Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1983-1985 | Research Associate, Demographic Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer in Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
| 1984 | Visiting Scholar, World Fertility Survey, London |
| since 1984 | Employed at IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg |
| 1988 | Habilitation, Demography and Social Statistics, University of Vienna |
| since 1988 | Leader, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg |
| 1995-1998 | Research Director, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna |
| 1998-2001 | Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) |
| 1999-2004 | Scientific Coordinator, EU Observatory for the Social Situation, Demography and the Family |
| 2001-2002 | Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment |
| since 2002 | Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| 2007 | Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University |
| 2002-2009 | Deputy Chair, Board of Directors and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kairo |
| 2003-2008 | Member, Board of Directors (Kuratorium), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock |
| since 2008 | Full Professor of Social and Economic Statistics (part time), Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 2011 | Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) |
| | Previous Occupation and Appointments include: |
| 1975-1990 | Lecturer in European Community Law, Trinity College Dublin |
| 1976-1990 | Member of the Advisory Board, Common Market Law Review |
| 1984-1990 | Member, Editorial Board of Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated |
| 1988-1990 | Co-founder and Director, Irish Centre for European Law |
| 1989-1990 | Member, Scientific Council of European Review of Public Law |
| 1997-2002 | United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| 2001 | Secretary-General, Durban World Conference against Racism |
| 2001-2008 | Member of the Board, The Vaccine Fund |
| 2002-2010 | President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative |
| 2003-2005 | Member of the Global Commission on International Migration |
| 2003-2009 | Honorary Chair, BLIHR - Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights |
| Chair, Fund for Global Human Rights |
| 2004-2009 | Professor of Practice, Columbia University |
| 2005-2007 | Member of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor |
| 2005-2008 | Chair, Board of Trustees, IIED - International Institute for Environment and Development |
| 2006-2010 | Member of the UN Global Compact Board |
| 2007-2008 | Vice-chair of the GAVI Fund Board |
| 2008-2010 | President, International Commission of Jurists |
| | |
| | Current Occupation and Appointments include: |
| since 1997 | Member of the Council of State, Ireland |
| Member, Council of Women World Leaders |
| since 1998 | Chancellor of the University of Dublin |
| since 2001 | Member of the Advisory Board, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Sweden |
| since 2002 | Member, The Club of Madrid |
| since 2003 | Member, International Advisory Committee of the International Development Law Organization, Rome |
| Member of the Advisory Board, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College |
| Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria |
| since 2004 | Member of the Advisory Committee of the Samuel Rubin Program for the Advancement of Liberty and Equality through Law, Columbia University |
| since 2005 | Member of Generation Investment Management Board |
| since 2006 | Member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Board |
| since 2007 | Member of the Elders |
| since 2008 | Member, Silatech Foundation Board of Trustees |
| since 2010 | Chair, IHRB - Institute for Human Rights and Business |
| Member of the ECF - European Climate Foundation Board |
| President, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice |
| | Studium Politikwissenschaft und Geschichte in Wien, Granada, Guatemala |
| 1995-1996 | Menschenrechtsbeobachterin in Guatemala |
| 1998-2002 | Pressesprecherin und Globalization Officer beim WWF Österreich |
| seit 2003 | Journalistin und Autorin mit den Schwerpunkten Globalisierung, Menschenrechte, Migration |
| Politikredakteurin beim Wirtschaftsmagazin Format |
| 2006-2008 | Recherchen, Beratung und Aufnahmeleitungen für den Dokumentarfilm "Let's Make Money" von Erwin Wagenhofer |
| 2007-2012 | Moderation, Club 2, ORF |
| 2010-2012 | Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin, News |
| seit 2012 | Moderatorin, Pro und Contra - Der AustriaNews Talk, PULS 4 |
| seit 2013 | Informationsdirektorin, Prosieben Sat1 PULS4 |
| 2013-2014 | Moderatorin, "Die letzten Zeugen" von Doron Rabinovici und Matthias Hartmann, Burgtheater Wien |
