| | Educational History |
| 1976-1981 | Studied Law, University of Vienna |
| 1981-1983 | Postgraduate Studies of International Affairs and Development, The American University, Washington D.C. |
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| | Professional experience before joining the European Institutions: |
| 1983 | Joined the Austrian Foreign Service |
| 1983-1984 | Austrian sponsored Junior Professional Officer, UNDP office in Bamako, Mali |
| 1985-1986 | Staff member, office of the Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, Austrian Federal Foreign Ministry |
| 1986-1990 | Special Attaché, Austrian Embassy, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| 1990-1994 | Head, Austrian Embassy's Regional Bureau for Development Co-operation, Kampala/Uganda |
| 1994-1998 | Department for Security Policy of the Federal Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1998-2000 | Deputy Head (Minister), Austrian Embassy, Rome, also appointed as Austria's Alternate Governor at IFAD - The International Fund for Agricultural Development |
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| | Professional experience in the European Institutions |
| 2000-2001 | Conseiller within European Commission, DG RELEX - Directorate-General for External Relations , responsibilities included participation in reform |
| 2001-2003 | Head of Unit in DG RELEX - Directorate-General for External Relations (Unit H4), in charge of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives and covering the two largest Asia programmes of the Commission |
| 2003-2007 | Ambassador Head of European Commission Delegation, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| 2007-2012 | Director for the European Neighbourhood, covering Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Directorate-General Development and Cooperation, EuropeAid |
| since 2012 | Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Development and Cooperation, EuropeAid |
