| 1971-1978 | Studium der Chemie an der Universität Graz |
| 1978 | Eintritt in das im Familienbesitz stehende Pharmaunternehmen Lannacher Heilmittel GmbH |
| 1980-1994 | Übernahme der Alleingeschäftsführung der Lannacher Heilmittel GmbH |
| 1991-1994 | Abgeordneter zum Nationalrat und Industriesprecher der ÖVP |
| seit 1992 | Landesparteiobmann-Stellvertreter der ÖVP Steiermark |
| 1994-1995 | Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Öffentliche Wirtschaft und Verkehr |
| 1995-1996 | Bundesminister für Umwelt |
| 1996-2000 | Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie |
| seit 2000 | Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Arbeit |
| 1991 | M.A. in political science (Cand.scient.pol.) |
| 1994 | Ph.D. at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen |
| 1994-1996 | Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus |
| 1997-2005 | Associate professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus |
| 2002-2004 | Director of Denmark's national Environmental Assessment Institute |
| 2004 | Organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus |
| since 2005 | Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School |
| since 2006 | Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center |
| | studied Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1968 | Research Fellow, Caltech |
| 1967-1969 | Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge |
| 1967-1972 | Staff member, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge |
| 1969-1992 | Senior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge |
| 1969-1970 | Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey |
| 1971 | Visiting Associate Professor, Caltech |
| 1972 | , 1988-89 Visiting Professor, Harvard University |
| 1972-1973 | Professor, Sussex University |
| 1976-1977 | Gresham Professor of Astronomy |
| 1982 | , 1996-1997 Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 1984 | Joint Coordinator of programme on galaxy formation, etc. at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara |
| 1984-1988 | Regents Visiting Fellow of Smithsonian Institution |
| 1973-1991 | Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University |
| 1977-1982 | , 1987-91 Director, Institute of Astronomy |
| 1973-1991 | Professorial Fellow, King's College, Cambridge |
| 1992-2003 | Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University |
| Official Fellow King's College, Cambridge |
| 1995 | JSPS visitor, Kyoto University |
| 2002-2009 | Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cambridge |
| 2004-2012 | Master of Trinity College, Cambridge |
| since 1995 | Astronomer Royal |
| since 2001 | Honorary Professor, Imperial College, London and Leicester University |
| since 2012 | Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1954 | -61 University of Graz, Austria (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Ph.D. summa cum laude, 1961 |
| 1961 | -68 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1964 | -66 Post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Efraim Racker at the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, USA |
| 1968 | -73 Associate Professor, Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| 1973 | -74 Professor, Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
| 1974 | -present Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland (emeritus as of October 30, 2000) |
| 1983-1985 | Chairman, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 2000-2003 | President, Swiss Science and Technology Council |
