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Wolfgang Petritsch |
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High Representative since August 1999 |
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Curriculum Vitae |
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Born on 26 August 1947 in Klagenfurt, Austria |
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| 1972 |
Ph.D. Southeastern European History, University of Vienna |
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| 1972 - 1973 |
Fulbright scholarship, University of Southern California, L.A., USA |
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| 1977 - 1983 |
Adviser, Press Secretary of the Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky |
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| 1983 - 1984 |
Austrian Mission to OECD, Paris |
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| 1984 - 1992 |
Head of Austrian Press and Information Service, New York |
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| 1992 - 1994 |
Acting Head of the Department for Multilateral Economic Co-operation in the Austrian MFA |
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| 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) |
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| 1995 - 1997 |
Head of Department for International Relations of the City of Vienna |
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Sept.1997-
Jul.1999
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Austrian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
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Oct.1998 -
Jul.1999
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EU Special Envoy for Kosovo |
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February -
March 1999
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EU Chief Negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris |
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Since August
1999
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The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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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?"
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