| 1994 | Head of Section at the Danish Ministry of Industry |
| Robert Schuman Scholar at the European Parliament, Luxembourg/Brussels |
| 1996-1999 | Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI) |
| 1999-2002 | Senior research Fellow at DUPI |
| 2002 | Research Director, DUPI |
| 2003-2006 | Director of European Affairs,Confederation of Danish Industries |
| 2006-2009 | Pro-Vice Chancellor,University of Copenhagen |
| 2009-2011 | Danish Minister for Climate,Energy and Gender Equality |
| 2011-2013 | Member of the Danish Parliament,( Liberal Party) |
| since 2013 | Prorector for Education, University of Copenhagen |
| | Mario Monti is president of Bocconi University, Milan. He is also European chairman of the Trilateral Commission and honorary president of Bruegel, the European think-tank he launched in 2005. As the EU-appointed coordinator for the electricity interconnection between France and Spain, he brokered an agreement between the two heads of governments in June 2008. He was a member of the Attali Committee on French economic growth, set up by President Sarkozy (2007-2008). He was for ten years a member of the European Commission, in charge of the Internal market, Financial services and Tax policy (1995-1999), then of Competition (1999-2004). In addition to a number of high-profile cases (e.g. GE/Honeywell, Microsoft, the German Landesbanken), he introduced radical modernization reforms of EU antitrust and merger control and led, with the US authorities, the creation of the International Competition Network (ICN). |
| | Mr. Monti graduated from Bocconi and Yale University. Prior to joining the European Commission, he had been professor of economics and rector at Bocconi University. |
| 1978 | Ph.D., University of Vienna |
| 1979-1989 | Research Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1980-1998 | Lecturer, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and University of Vienna |
| 1986-1987 | Visiting Professor, University of Bamberg |
| 1986 | , 1989 and 1997-1998 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1988-1989 | Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt am Main |
| 1989-1997 | Lecturer, Technical University, Vienna |
| 1990-1992 | Director, Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Science |
| 1992 | Visiting Professor, University of Zurich |
| 1992-2003 | Head, Department of Demography, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 1995 | , 1997 Visiting Professor, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt |
| 2000-2001 | Visiting Professor, University of Vienna |
| 2001-2002 | Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University, Vienna |
| since 2003 | Senior Fellow, HWWI - Hamburg Institute of International Economics |
| since 2005 | Senior Researcher, Erste Group Bank AG |
| 2008-2010 | Member, Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030, European Union |
| since 2009 | Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Center, Washington, D.C. |
| since 2010 | Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen |
| Member of the Advisory Committee, Alpbach Financial Market Symposium, Vienna |
| 1969-1973 | Studien der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Tübingen, Genf und Freiburg (erstes Staatsexamen, Freiburg); hochschulpolitisch tätig als stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Großen Senats der Universität Freiburg |
| 1974-1976 | Referendarzeit im baden-württembergischen Staatsdienst in Ulm; Promotion im Zivilrecht; zweites juristisches Staatsexamen in Stuttgart |
| 1975-1980 | Stadtrat in Ulm |
| 1976-1977 | Studium an der Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Paris (Schwerpunkte: Verwaltungsführung, internationale Wirtschaftspolitik) |
| 1978-1980 | Referent im Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg unter den Ministerpräsidenten Dr. Hans Filbinger und Lothar Späth |
| 1980-1986 | Leitender Stadtdirektor der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart; Leitung des Persönlichen Referats von Oberbürgermeister Dr. Manfred Rommel |
| 1986-1993 | Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| 1993-1996 | Bürgermeister für Kultur, Bildung und Sport der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart |
| seit 1997 | Oberbürgermeister der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (gewählt bis 2013) |
| from 1982 | Studies, Philosophy and German Literature, Vienna |
| from 1984 | Journalist, Der Falter, Vienna |
| 1986-1987 | Journalist, Kleine Zeitung, Graz |
| 1987 | Freelancer, Profil, Vienna |
| since 1988 | Staff member, DER STANDARD, Vienna |
| 1994-2002 | European Editor, DER STANDARD, Brussels |
| since 2002 | Managing Editor and Head of Newsroom, DER STANDARD, Vienna |
| since 2009 | Editor, Europe and NATO, DER STANDARD, Brussels |
