22: Zusammen oder zerrissen: Welche Werte sichern unsere Zukunft?
In Zusammenarbeit mit ÖIF - Österreichischer Integrationsfonds
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in englischer SpracheZusammenhalt ist unabdingbar für die Bewältigung großer Herausforderungen. Die aktuelle Situation zeigt: Eine tragfähige, gemeinsame Basis ist entscheidend für das Zusammenleben, im Kleinen wie im Großen. Welchen Wert haben Demokratie, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Gleichberechtigung? Was können sie für Gegenwart und Zukunft leisten?
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Sebastian KURZ
Federal Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
| 2008-2011 | Provincial Chairman of the Young ÖVP - Austrian People's Party, Vienna |
| since 2009 | Federal Chairman of the Young ÖVP |
| 2010-2011 | Member of the Vienna Provincial Diet and Vienna City Council, ÖVP, Vienna |
| 2011-2013 | State Secretary for Integration, Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria, Vienna |
| 2013-2017 | Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna |
| since 2017 | Federal Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna |
Dr. Karin KNEISSL
Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna
| On 18 December 2017, Dr Karin Kneissl was appointed Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Karin Kneissl was born in 1965 in Vienna. She studied law and Arab studies at the University of Vienna. She also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Amman, the University of Urbino and was a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Karin Kneissl is also a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris. From 1990 to 1998 Karin Kneissl held a number of posts in the Austrian diplomatic service, including in the cabinet of then foreign minister Dr Alois Mock, in the Office of International Law and at the Austrian embassies in Paris and Madrid. Since 1998 Karin Kneissl has worked as an independent lecturer in the areas of international law, Middle Eastern history and the energy market at various universities, including the University of Vienna; the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna; the European Business School in the Rheingau, Germany; the International Centre for Human Sciences in Byblos, Lebanon; Saint-Joseph University in Beirut; as well as at the Austrian Armed Forces National Defence Academy, Vienna and Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. Karin Kneissl has also worked since 1998 as an independent commentator and correspondent for numerous German and English-speaking print media, as well as for the Austrian state broadcaster ORF. She has authored a large number of books and publications. Karin Kneissl is co-founder and vice president of Whistleblowing Austria as well as vice president of the Society for Politico-Strategic Studies, STRATEG. She has worked in local politics in her home community of Seibersdorf and plays an active role in numerous non-profit organisations in Austria and Lebanon. Karin Kneissl speaks various foreign languages: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew (basic), Italian, Hungarian (basic) and Spanish. |
Michael O'FLAHERTY
Director, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna
| 1995-1996 | Secretary, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva |
| 1996-1997 | Expert Advisor, Human Rights under the Dayton Peace Accords, UN, Sarajevo |
| 1997-1998 | Independent Consultant, Human Rights |
| 1998-2000 | Chief, UN human rights programme in Sierra Leone, Freetown |
| 2000-2002 | Coordinator, Programmes in the Asia-Pacific region, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva |
| 2002-2003 | Senior Research Officer (Child Rights), UNICEF Innocent Research Centre, Florence |
| 2003-2013 | Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co-director,Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham |
| 2004-2012 | Member (latterly Vice-chair), United Nations Human Rights Committee, Geneva |
| 2011-2013 | Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Belfast |
| 2013-2015 | Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway |
| since 2015 | Director, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna |
Ismail YASIN
Project Member, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, ÖAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
| 1993-1998 | Co-Director, Syrian institute for languages sciences, Damascus |
| 1998-2012 | Chairman and Co-Director, Al Zaharaa Institute, Damascus |
| 2000-2013 | Lecturer, Damascus University and Islamic Studies Center, Damascus |
| 2013-2014 | Lecturer, High Schools and Amman University, Jordan |
| 2014-2015 | Calligrapher and Researcher, Karlstat National Museum Warmland |
| since 2015 | Project Member, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, ÖAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
Stephanie COX
Host, Vienna
| 2010 | Startup Live Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz & Innsbruck |
| 2011-2013 | IncrediblEurope Summit, Vienna |
| since 2011 | Pioneers Festival Investors Day & Master Class, Vienna |
| 2012 | Pitch Your Passion, Vienna |
| Children's University Krems | |
| 2013 | Entrepreneurship Summit Vienna Ashoka Session, Vienna |
| since 2013 | projectXchange, Red Cross, Vienna |
| TEDx Events, Vienna |
