| 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?” | |||