Office of the High Representative




			Wolfgang Petritsch

			High Representative, August 1999 – May 2002

			Curriculum Vitae
			Born on 26 August 1947 in Klagenfurt, Austria

1972			Ph.D. Southeastern European History, University of Vienna

1972 – 1973			Fulbright scholarship, University of Southern California, L.A., USA

1977 – 1983			Adviser, Press Secretary of the Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky

1983 – 1984			Austrian Mission to OECD, Paris

1984 – 1992			Head of Austrian Press and Information Service, New York

1992 – 1994			Acting Head of the Department for Multilateral Economic Co-operation in the Austrian MFA

1994			Head of Department for Information on European Affairs in the Federal Chancellery (supervised the Federal Government’s information campaign on Austria’s accession to the EU)

1995 – 1997			Head of Department for International Relations of the City of Vienna

Sept.1997- Jul.1999			Austrian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Oct.1998 – Jul.1999			EU Special Envoy for Kosovo

February – March 1999			EU Chief Negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris

Since August 1999			The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Wolfgang Petritsch has published extensively on foreign and domestic policy issues. Most recently he co-authored the book ‘Kosovo-Kosova. Mythen, Daten, Fakten.’ His latest book is “Bosnien und Herzegowina fünf Jahre nach Dayton – Hat der Friede eine Chance?”