| Graduate of the Hebrew University and the London School of Economics |
| Visiting appointments at Yale, Cornell, the University of California, Oxford, the Australian National University, Cardozo School of Law in New York and Northwestern University |
| Visiting scholar at the Wilson Center, the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (all in Washington, D.C.) as well as the Institute of World Economics and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow |
1975-1977 | Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Yitzhak Rabin |
| Head of the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly |
1979 | Member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that drafted the Cultural and Scientific Agreement between the two countries |
1990-1992 | Member of international teams of observers, under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute, for the first post-communist elections in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Estonia and Croatia as well as other NDI missions to Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Albania and Georgia |
1966 | B.A. Columbia University |
1971-1972 | Lecturer, New York University |
1972-1973 | Taught at Harvard University |
1973 | Ph.D. Columbia University |
1973-1974 | Fellow, Harvard University |
1974-1976 | Taught at Hacettepe University, Ankara |
1977-1986 | Taught at the University of Pennsylvania |
1983-1986 | Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania |
1985-1986 | Professor, University of Hamburg |
1986-1992 | Director of Education, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Paris and Geneva |
1992-1993 | Head, Ankara Corporate Affairs Office, Philip Morris International |
1994-1995 | Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg |
1994 | Initiated a policy dialogue on the future European architecture, Turkey s place in that architecture, EU enlargement, and the effects of the customs union agreement with Turkey. Based on that initiative he established, in cooperation with a broad network of European research institutes and universities, Turkey s EU Membership Observatory now based at the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University |
1995-1997 | Professor of Political Science, Bilkent, Ankara (also headed 1995-96 the Department of Political Science and Public Administration) |
since 2007 | Senior Faculty, Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University |
1997-2001 | Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul |
2001 | Founding and Executive Board Member of the Istanbul Policy Center |
2004 | Visiting Professor, Northwestern University |
2004-2005 | Alexander Onassis senior fellow and visiting scholar at ELIAMEP: the Hellenic Foundation for European Foreign Policy, Athens |
since 2009 | Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Washington. D.C. |
1953 | joined Indian Foreign Service, served in Peking, New York in various capacities |
| Ambassador to Poland, Deputy High Commissioner, London, High Commissioner to Zambia, Ambassador to Pakistan |
1983 | Secretary General 7th Non-Aligned Summit |
| Union Minister of State for Fertilizers and External Affairs |
| Member of Parliament, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Dept. of All India Congress Committee; Member of Congress Working Committee |
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 |