| 1976 | Embassy in Athens, Greece |
| 1981 | 5th European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1985 | Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus |
| 1992 | Counsellor, 2nd European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Head of UK/Ireland Division, 2nd European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1993 | Deputy Director, 2nd European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1995 | Deputy Head, Russian delegation to the OSCE, Vienna, Austria |
| 1996 | Deputy High Representative for Bosnia Peace Implementation, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1997 | Director, 3rd European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1997-2000 | Russian Special Representative for Cyprus |
| 1999 | Director, European Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2000-2002 | Russian Special Representative for the Balkans |
| 2002 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 2005 | Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Communities, Brussels |
| since 2010 | Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union, Brussels |
| | Conducted analytical research work on European security, OSCE, Russia-EU and Russia-NATO relations, Mediterranean, Balkans, problems of Cyprus and Northern Ireland, UN peace-keeping operations. |
| 1975 | Bachelor of Arts, Tri Chandra College, Kathmandu |
| 1978 | Bachelor of Laws, Delhi University |
| 1981 | Master of International Affairs, Columbia University |
| 1982 | Master of Science in Journalism, Columbia University |
| since 1971 | Journalist |
| 1982-1990 | United Nations Secretariat, New York |
| 1987-1996 | Editor, Himal (Himalayan magazine) |
| since 1996 | Editor, Himal (South Asian) |
| since 1998 | Publisher of Himal Khabarpatrika, fortnightly news magazine |
| 1969-1971 | Tutor and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Massachusetts |
| 1971-1975 | Assistant Professor of History, Hamilton College, New York |
| 1975-1978 | Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Berlin |
| 1982-1984 | Vice President for Academic Affairs, Longwood College, Virginia |
| 1984-1985 | Senior Vice President, International Management and Development Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| 1985-1992 | Director, West European Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. |
| 1990 | Member of the U.S. delegation to the Copenhagen CSCE Conference |
| 1991 | Guest Professor at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen |
| 1992-1994 | Chief, European Division, Library of Congress |
| 1994-2005 | Democratic Staff Director for European Affairs, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senior Advisor to U.S. Vice President (then-Senator) Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| 1993 | , 2000, 2006 Member of the U.S. delegation to the Wehrkunde Security Conference, Munich |
| 2000 | Speech at Assemblée Nationale, Paris |
| 2004 | Member of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Boris Tadic as President of Serbia |
| Speech at Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin |
| 2005 | Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Copenhagen |
| 2005-2006 | Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and Principal, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP |
| since 2006 | Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. |
| since 2007 | Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates (formerly Kissinger McLarty Associates), Washington, D.C. |
| 2009 | Speech at OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna |
| Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 2009 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw |
| 2010 | Head of the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE 20th Anniversary Conference in Copenhagen |
| 1966-1971 | Studies of political sciences, history and philosophy, University of Bonn |
| 1971 | Graduation ad Ph.D. |
| 1975 | Habilitation, Political Sciences |
| 1975-1995 | Professor of Political Sciences, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
| 1986-1988 | Professeur associé, Sorbonne, Paris |
| 1987-1999 | Coordinator, German-American Cooperation in the German government |
| since 1995 | Director, Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP), University of Munich |
| Professor for Political Systems and European Integration, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, University of Munich |
| since 2000 | permanent Guest-Professor, Remnin University of Peking |
| since 2012 | Rector of Alma Mater Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg |
| 1962-1968 | Student of history and German philology and literature at the University of Vienna, 1968 Promotion to Doctor of Philosophy (major in modern European history) |
| 1969-1973 | Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna |
| 1973 | Entry into the Austrian Foreign Service |
| 1975-1978 | Minister Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
| 1983-1992 | Foreign Policy Advisor to the Austrian Federal Chancellor |
| 1992-1999 | Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to France |
| 1997-1999 | Ambassador of the Republic of Austria at the Court of St. James |
| 1999-2003 | Director General for European Integration and Economic Affairs in the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
| 2003-2008 | Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the United States of America, Permanent Observer of the Republic of Austria to the Organization of American States (OAS), Non-resident Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas |
| 2009 | Appointment as President of the Austrian UNESCO Commission |
| 2013 | Appointment as Chair of the University Board of the University of Vienna |
