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Clarisse Pásztory (
Austria
)
assumed her duties as Deputy High Representative and Head of OHR Banja
Luka on 8 November 2006.
Ms. Pásztory came to Bosnia and Herzegovina with ample
experience in the region, previous assignments include Kosovo (2004-2006,
Senior Political Advisor to the Kosovo Status Delegation and the
Government of Kosovo; Office of the Personal Representative of the EU HR
for CFSP), and FYRoM (2001-2004, Senior Political Advisor in the Office of
the EU Special Representative in Skopje, seconded by the Austrian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
From 1993 to 2001, Clarisse Pásztory held various functions
in
Austria , including tasks
related to
Austria
’s
EU accession within the Austrian Federal Economic Organization and
Secretary General of the Council of Economic and Social Issues. She was
chairperson and member of a number of think-tanks and working groups
dealing with European Integration, economic and social policy and the
European security architecture.
From 1990 to 1993 she free-lanced as journalist and media
monitor for Central and
Eastern Europe . Between
1987 and 1990 she worked with the United Nations Secretariat in
New York
, assisting meetings
of the General Assembly, the Political Committee, the Special Session on
Disarmament and the Security Council.
From 1983 onwards, Clarisse Pásztory was actively involved
in Austrian youth politics, and later participated in the management and
conduct of a number of national, presidential and European electoral
campaigns.
Ms. Pásztory holds degrees from the
American
Webster
University (
St. Louis ,
Geneva ,
Vienna
) from where she
graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in International
Studies/Economics in 1991 and a Master of Arts in International Relations
in 1993. Her thesis dealt with “The Common Foreign and Security Policy
after
Maastricht against the Background of the EU
Policy towards former
Yugoslavia
”.
She is also a graduate from the University of Vienna, Austria (Magister,
Political Sciences, 1994) and the
University of
Fribourg ,
Switzerland
(Postgraduate Studies in Non-Profit Management, specialization in
Strategic Planning, 2001).
She speaks German (mother tongue), English, French, Italian,
Albanian, and has a basic knowledge of Slavic languages.
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