10: The European Union as a Global Actor
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Dr. Thomas MAYR-HARTING
Chair, International Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
1977 | Law Studies in Vienna (Dr. iur.) |
1977-1978 | Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges |
1978 | Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague |
1979 | Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
1982-1986 | Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels |
1986-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Moscow |
1991-1993 | Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna |
1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna |
1995-1999 | Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
1996-1999 | Deputy Political Director, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
1999-2003 | Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels |
2002-2004 | Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans |
2003-2004 | Representative of the Federal Chancellor of Austria in the Commission on the Reform of the Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna |
2003-2008 | Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
2008-2011 | Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
2009-2010 | Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York (President of the Security Council in November 2009) |
2011 | Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York |
2011-2015 | Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York |
since 2015 | Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service, Brussels |
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin |
Dr. Christian BERGER
Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, Ankara
1986-1987 | Operations officer with the Austrian UN-Peacekeeping Battalion on the Golan, UNDOF |
1989-1994 | Working with the United Nations in Gaza and Jerusalem |
1994-1997 | Deputy Director at the OSCE in Vienna and Secretary of the OSCE Permanent Council; Deputy Executive Secretary to the Joint Consultative Group (Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe) and the Open Skies Consultative Commission |
1997 | Mr Berger joined the European institutions |
1997-1999 | Committee of the Regions |
1999-2001 | Responsible for relations with Syria, European Commission |
2001-2005 | Political Advisor on Middle Eastern issues |
2005-2006 | EU Representative to the Quartet Special Envoy Mr Wolfensohn |
2006-2008 | Head of the Crisis Response & Peacebuilding Unit in the EC |
2009-2011 | EU Representative for West Bank & Gaza office |
since 2011 | Director for North Africa, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Iran in the European External Action Service; law degrees from Vienna and London |
Dr. Jan WOUTERS
Jean Monnet Chair ad Personam on The European Union and Global Governance; Professor and Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law, University of Leuven
1984-1991 | Study of Law and Philosophy, Antwerp; LL.M. Yale University, Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School |
1996 | PhD, University of Leuven |
since 1998 | Jean Monnet Chair ad Personam on the European Union and Global Governance |
Full Professor, International Law and International Organizations | |
Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies/Institute for International Law, University of Leuven | |
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges; Sciences Po, Paris | |
Editor, International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations | |
Deputy Director, Revue Belge de Droit International |