| 1990 | BBA, Iowa State University |
| 1993 | MS, Iowa State University |
| 1997 | Ph.D., University of Minnesota |
| 1997-1998 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1998-2001 | Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University |
| since 2001 | Professor of Organizational Behavior, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 1962-1966 | University of Natal (BA & LLB) |
| 1967 | First woman to start a law practice in Natal Province, South Africa; Defense attorney for many anti-apartheid activists |
| 1967-1995 | Attorney and Conveyancer, High Court of South Africa |
| 1980 | Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| 1982-1988 | Harvard University (Masters and Doctorate juridical science) |
| 1985 | Co-founded international women's rights group Equality Now |
| 1995 | Vice-President, Council of University of Durban Westville |
| Acting Judge, High Court of South Africa |
| 1995-1999 | Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| 1999-2003 | President, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| 2003-2008 | Appeals Division Judge, International Criminal Court in the Hague |
| since 2008 | High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva |
| 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 |
| 1975 | Diploma in Sociology, University of Marburg |
| 1976 | Teacher s exam (Staatsexamen) for the subjects Political Science and German Language and Literature, Marburg |
| 1978 | Ph. D. (Dr. phil.), University of Marburg |
| 1978-1981 | Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Institute for Intereuropean Studies in Berlin |
| 1981-1989 | Director of the Institute for Intereuropean Studies in Berlin |
| 1989-1993 | Head of the Film Department in the Office of the Governing Mayor of Berlin |
| since 1993 | Director of the European Academy Berlin |
| since 1999 | Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin (Political Science) |
| since 2005 | Professor for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin |
