Neue Wege der Innovation
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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Dr. Wolfgang BURTSCHER
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels
| Wolfgang Burtscher is Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. | |
| An Austrian national, Wolfgang Burtscher acted before joining DG Research and Innovation as a Director in DG Agriculture of the European Commission since 2000. Before his Commission career Mr Burtscher was representative of the Länder at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU. From 1992 to 1996 he was Director of European Affairs in the Vorarlberg administration. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, he was a legal advisor at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, at the time of negotiations on the European Economic Area (EEA). He focused particularly on the free circulation of goods and capital and on competition issues. Between 1983-1990 he was a lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Innsbruck. Wolfgang Burtscher holds a doctorate in law and also has a qualification from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice. |
M.Sc. Ph.D. Kristina M. JOHNSON
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Enduring Hydro LLC, Chevy Chase, MD
| BS, MS and Ph.D in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and honorary degrees from Tufts University, Trinity College in Dublin, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. In addition to her academic career, Dr. Johnson is a serial entrepreneur, co-founding several successful companies including ColorLink, Inc. She holds 129 US and International patents. | |
| 1993-1997 | Co-founder and Director, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center |
| 1985-1999 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado University at Boulder |
| 1999-2007 | Dean of Engineering at Duke University |
| 2007-2009 | Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University |
| 2009-2010 | Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), responsible for managing a broad portfolio of technologies ranging from renewable energy and the smart grid to fossil fuels, nuclear power and environmental clean-up. |
| since 2011 | Director of The AES Corporation |
| Chairman and CEO of Enduring Energy, LLC, a company she co-founded in 2011. |
Dr. Julia I. LANE
Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation Policy, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
| 1982 | 1983 Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University |
| 1984 | 1990 Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Louisville |
| 1990 | 2001 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Economics, American University |
| 1996 | 1997 Private Sector Development, World Bank (on sabbatical) |
| 2000 | 2004 Director, Employment Dynamics Program and Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute |
| 2004 | 2005 Program Director, Economics, National Science Foundation |
| 2005 | 2008 Senior Vice President and Director, Economics, Labor, and Population, NORC at the University of Chicago |
| since 2008 | Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation Policy, National Science Foundation |
Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. Claus J. RAIDL
Vice President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1970-1971 | Senior assistant, Institute for Applied Social and Economic Research |
| 1971-1974 | Worked in banking and for a certified public accountant, provided consultancy services to the OECD on international tax law and multinational corporations |
| 1974-1981 | Österreichische Volksfürsorge Allgemeine Versicherung AG |
| 1981-1982 | Member of the Executive Board, Wiener Holding Ges.m.b.H. |
| 1982-1986 | Member of the Executive Board, ÖIAG (Österreichische Industrieverwaltungs AG) |
| 1986-1988 | Deputy Chairman and Senior Executive Vice President, VOEST-ALPINE AG |
| 1988-1992 | Deputy Chairman and Senior Executive Vice President, VOEST-ALPINE STAHL AG |
| 1993-1994 | Member of the Executive Board, AUSTRIAN INDUSTRIES AG |
| 1991-2010 | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG |
| 2007-2010 | Member, Executive Board, voestalpine AG |
| 2008-2018 | President, OeNB - Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna |
| since 2012 | Vice President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna |
Michael FLEISCHHACKER
Editor in Chief and Managing Director, NZZ Austria; Mentor, Alpbach Media Academy; Vienna
| ab 1988 | Studien der Theologie, Germanistik und Klassischen Philologie an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (nicht abgeschlossen) |
| 1991-1994 | Außenpolitik-Redakteur, "Kleine Zeitung" |
| 1994 | Redakteur in der Chefredaktion, "Kleine Zeitung" |
| 1995-1997 | Chef vom Dienst, "Kleine Zeitung" |
| 1998-1999 | Stellvertretender Chefredakteur, "Kleine Zeitung" |
| 2000-2001 | Chef vom Dienst, "Standard" |
| 2002-2004 | Stellvertretender Chefredakteur, "Die Presse" |
| 2004-2012 | Chefredakteur, "Die Presse" |
| 2013 | /14 Leiter, Media Academy, Europäisches Forum Alpbach |
| seit 2015 | Chefredakteur, "nzz.at" |
