The current status of the accession negotiations
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Petras AUSTREVICIUS
Chief Negotiator for the EU Accession
| 1981-1986 | Student of the Vilnius University, Department of Industrial Economics |
| 1986-1991 | Institute of Economy, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Junior Research Fellow |
| 1988-1991 | Post-graduate course |
| 1991-1992 | Senior Official and later First Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania |
| 1992-1993 | Head of the Northern European Division MFA |
| October 1993 Charge d Affaires ad interim of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Finland September 2, 1994 - December 20, 1997 | |
| Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Finland | |
| February 1998 Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania on Foreign Affairs | |
| May 1998 Director General of the European Committee under the Government of Lithuania | |
| October 1999 Chancellor of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania | |
| November 2000 - present Director General of the European Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania | |
| January 2001- present Chief Negotiator with EU |
Henrik HOLOLEI
Minister of Economic Affairs
| Grad. Tallinn Technical University/ Department of | |
| Economics, 1993, Macroeconomy; Aarhus University/Denmark, Political Science | |
| and International Economy, 1992-1993; Participation in various seminars on | |
| EU integration and negotiations, 1995-2001 | |
| 1993 | (Oct)-1995 (Aug) Finnish Foreign Trade Association/Tallinn Branch: Assistant Trade Commissioner |
| 1995 | (Aug)-1996 (Jan) Counsellor to the Minister for European Affairs |
| 1996 | (Jan)-1996 (Aug) Counsellor/ Office of European Integration |
| 1996-2001 | (Oct) Director of the Office of European Integration, State Chancellery; Chairman for the Estonian Council of Senior |
| Civil Servants for the EU Integration (the inter-institutional body for the Co-ordination of EU affairs in Estonia) | |
| 2001 | (Oct) Minister of Economic Affairs |
Andris KESTERIS
Chief Negotiator for the EU Accession of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
| 1984 - 1987 | post graduate, State University of Kiev, aspirant |
| 1979 - 1984 | graduated the University of Latvia, Faculty of History and Philosophy |
| Since 1999 Chief Negotiator for Latvia s accession negotiations to the EU | |
| Since 1998 Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| 1994 - 1998 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia in Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1992 - 1994 | Head of Latvian Delegation CSCE, Charge d Affaires, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Austria |
| Febr. 1992 Head of Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| Dec. 1990 Began diplomatic career as a Political Desk Officer of the Department of Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| 1987 - 1990 | University of Latvia, lecturer |
Antti KUOSMANEN
Director, Directorate I - Enlargement, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
| Master of Sciences (Mathematics, Economics, Statistics) University of Helsinki, 1974. Married since 1975, two children. | |
| Director, DGE I (Enlargement), General Secretariat, Council of the European Union, 1999-. | |
| Director, DGE II (External relations), General Secretariat, Council of he European Union, 1996-99. | |
| Deputy Director-General, Deputy Head of the EU-Secretariat, 1994-1996. | |
| Director, Head of the Division for Western European Integration, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1993-1994. Member of Finland's Delegation in the accession negotiations (special responsibility: fisheries and the environment). | |
| Previously: several positions in the Finnish Diplomatic service starting from 1976. |
Dr. Martin SAJDIK
Leiter, Wirtschafts- und integrationspolitischen Sektion, Bundesministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Wien
| 1989-1991 | Gesandter an der Österreichischen Botschaft Moskau |
| 1994-1997 | Leiter der Abteilung Immobilienmanagement und Beschaffungswesen |
| seit 1997 | Leiter der Abteilung EU-Erweiterung, Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen Zentral-, Ost- und Südosteuropa |
| seit 2003 | Leiter der Wirtschafts- und integrationspolitischen Sektion im Bundesministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten |
