| 1978-1983 | University of Vienna, Law Faculty; 1983 Graduation as Doktor iuris - Doctor of Law |
| 1982-1983 | Assistant Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Criminal Law, University of Vienna |
| 1983-1984 | Judge's Assistant at several Courts of Law in Vienna |
| 1984-1987 | Civil Servant for the Federal State Lower Austria; employed in the Headquarter as well as in the Country Councils of Gmünd and Baden |
| 1987-1990 | Member in the Cabinet of the Minister of Defence |
| 1989-1991 | Speaker on European Relations, ÖAAB, the Employees' Association of the Austrian People's Party - ÖVP |
| 1990-1993 | Trainee Programme, Federation of Austrian Industrialists, including Work Experience at Alcatel Austria, Siemens and the Austrian Power Industry, as well as a four-months internship in Germany |
| 1991 | Deputy Head, ÖAAB |
| 1992-1993 | Member, Federal Chamber in the Austrian Parliament |
| 1993-1994 | GiroCredit (Austrian bank), employed within the Secretary of the Board; Strategic Management |
| 1993-1995 | MP - Member of the National Assembly |
| 1995-1996 | MEP - Member of the European Parliament (ÖVP-EVP), Brussels, Member in the Parliamentary Committee on Economics, Currency Issues and Industrial Policy, Deputy Member in the Committee for Social Issues and Employment |
| since 1996 | MP - Member of the National Assembly in the Austrian Parliament |
| 1996-2006 | Party's Speaker on Foreign Affairs, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| since 1998 | Chairman, NÖAAB (ÖAAB of Lower Austria) |
| 2000-2007 | Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe |
| 2000-2006 | Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader, Austrian People´s Party |
| 2002-2006 | Head, Austrian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe |
| 2006-2008 | 2nd President, Austrian National Council |
| 2008-2013 | Federal Minister for European and International Affairs |
| since 2009 | Head, ÖAAB |
| since 2011 | Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and Head of ÖVP |
| since 2013 | Federal Minister of Finance |
| 1974-1979 | Computer engineer, Bucharest Polytechnic Institute |
| 1979-1982 | Researcher, Central Institute for Informatics (ICI), Bucharest |
| 1982-1990 | Principal engineer, Computer Centre of the System of the International Trade, Bucharest |
| 1990-1991 | Third secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Policy Analysis Department |
| 1992-1993 | Second Secretary, European Organizations Department, MFA, NATO desk |
| 1993-1994 | Director, NATO, WEU, Council of Europe and sub-regional organizations, MFA |
| 1994-1997 | First Secretary, Head of the liaison office of Romania to NATO, Romanian Mission to the EU, NATO and WEU, Brussels |
| 1997-1999 | Councillor, Director, NATO, WEU and Crisis Management Department, MFA |
| 1999-2001 | Head, political section and coordinator of the EU accession negotiations, Romanian Mission to the EU, Brussels |
| 2001-2005 | Minister Councillor, Deputy Head of Mission of Romania to the EU, Brussels |
| 2005 | - Permanent Representative of Romania, COREPER I |
| - Minister Plenipotentiary, EU General Directorate, MFA |
| 2005-2009 | Representative of Romania to the Political and Security Committee |
| 2009 | - National Coordinator for the EU Strategy for Danube Region |
| 2010 | - Director, EU Policies Department, EU General Directorate, MFA |
| 1963 | Graduated in Economics at the Budapest School of Economics |
| 1963-1968 | "Elektroimpex" Economist, Hungarian Foreign Trading Co. |
| 1969-1982 | Desk Officer, Director, Ministry of Foreign Trade |
| 1982-1987 | Counselor in charge of the EC, Hungarian Embassy |
| 1987-1988 | Prime Minister Office: responsible for international economic organisations |
| 1988-1992 | Director General for multilateral relations, Ministry of International Economics Relations |
| 1992-1993 | Permanent State Secretary supervising the sectors of industry, energy, building industry, trade and tourism, Ministry of Industry and Trade |
| 1994-1996 | Ambassador, Hungarian Embassy, Copenhagen |
| 1997-2000 | Ambassador, Hungarian Embassy, Bonn-Berlin |
| 2000 | Dr. habil of the Budapest School of Economics |
| 2000-2002 | Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration: Professor |
| 2001-2003 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs: State Secretary for Integration and External Economic Relations |
| 2003 | Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2003-2004 | Permanent Representation of Hungary to the European Union: Ambassador (Corepter II.) |
| 2004 | Member of the European Commission |
| 2005-2009 | Professor at the faculty of International and European Studies at the Central European University |
| 2009-2010 | Foreign Minister of the Republic of Hungary |
| since 2010 | Professor, Central European University (CEU) |
| | Director, Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS), CEU |
| | Management assistant in real estate and housing industry |
| | Secondary School of business administration |
| | Vocational baccalaureate diploma |
| 1976-1981 | Real estate developer for the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf and Housing Projects |
| 1981-1986 | Chief administrator of the Verwaltungsstelle Zivildienst Niederrhein |
| 1986-1998 | Department Head of the Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund Nordrhein-Westfalen (Federation of German Trade Unions - Northrhine-Westphalian division) |
| 1998-2000 | CEO of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinprovinz |
| 1998-2009 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 2000-2002 | Secretary for transport, infrastructure and housing |
| 2001-2008 | Chairman of the Forum "Sustainability, Energy and Mobility" of the National Committee of the German Social Democrats |
| 2002-2009 | Deputy Chairman of the Committee on European Affiars of the German Bundestag |
| since 2006 | Maritime Ambassador of the European Union |
| 2003-2009 | NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Western European Union and frequent Chairmanship of the German COSAC-Delegation during the Presidency of the European Council |
| | Architekturstudium, Technische Universität Wien und Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien |
| | Architekturbüro, architectureality_space&designstrategies, Wien |
| 1992-1996 | Univ. Professorin für Entwerfen im Städtebaulichen Kontext, Gesamthochschule Universität Kassel |
| seit 2001 | Univ.Prof. für raum&designstrategien, Kunstuniversität Linz |
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| | Ausstellungen: |
| 1991 | , 1996 Architekturbiennale Venedig |
| 1996 | Personale Galerie AEDES, Berlin |
| 2003 | housing in Vienna, New York |
| 2004 | The Visionary Power of Austrian Architecture, Washington D.C. |
| 2008-2010 | Wiener Wohnbau, Venedig, Mailand, Wien, Belgrad, Berlin |
| 1966-1970 | Legal studies at the University of Vienna |
| 1970 | Doctor of Law |
| 1971-1973 | Legal work at courts and banks |
| 1973 | Entry into the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
| 1975 | Diplomatic Exam, afterwards employed at the Multilateral Economic Department, the Secretariat General and Cabinet of the Minister (1976) |
| 1985-1996 | Deputy Head of the Cabinet of the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| 1991-2002 | Austrian Ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein with residence in Vienna |
| 1997-2002 | Chief of Protocol |
| since 2002 | Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs |
