Dr.
Raoul Kneucker
Director General, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture/retired, Dr. iuris; Dr. h.c. (Webster University, Ma/USA)
Managing Director “Gallery of Research”/ Austrian Academy
of Sciences
Honorary Professor University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna (European
Politics/Political Science, law and religion, respectively)
Education / Training
Law (University of Graz, Dr. iuris 1961)
Political Science (Brandeis University / Massachusetts, USA, as a Fulbright
and Wien Scholar, 1958/1959)
US administrative law (Salzburg Seminar, 1961)
Public Administration (Speyer, 1964)
Researcher as Theodor Körner Fellow in Washington, D.C. (1965).
Management Training at Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes in Vienna (1982)
Professional Activities
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Law clerk at Graz Courts (1962); and the District Administration of Graz - Environs (1963);
Lecturer at the University of Vienna for Constitutional and Administrative Law (1964-1969);
Legislative Work at the Federal Ministry of Education (1966/67);
Secretary General of the Austrian Rectors‘ Conference (1970 -1978);
Secretary General of the Austrian National Science Foundation (1978 -1989);
Senior Official in the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (Technology Policy and Programmes), of Science, Research and Arts (Head of Division International Affairs), in the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport and of Education, Science and Culture (Director General of the Division of Scientific Research and International Affairs).
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Teaching assignments in Austrian constitutional and administrative law and in various areas of public law (human rights, education and research law and reform, food and drug legislation, organisation of public administration, in this order at the Universities of Vienna, at the University of Economics in Vienna, at the University of Klagenfurt and at Webster University/ Vienna Campus, at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna and the Federal Academy of In-Service/Training Vienna, Teacher Training seminars in Human Rights, seminar in "civics" for schools (at Rudolf Steiner Schools, Vienna-Mauer); guest lecturer at theUniversity of Nebraska (Lincoln) for Educational Law.
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Consulting activities for research organisations; reviewer for OECD of Science and Technology policies, Czech Republik (1992) and Poland (1995);
Evaluator of Dutch-Hungarian Science Relations (1995, 2000)
Vice - chairman of the Board of the Alban Berg-Foundation (Vienna)
Awards
• Comenius Medal, Czech Republik (1992)
• Pushkin Medal, Russian Federation (1999)
• The Great Medal of Honor in Silver with the Star in Recognition
of Services and Achievements for the Republic of Austria (1999);
• The Great Cross with the Star of the Ordre Merite of the Federal
Republic of Germany (1999)
• The Officer´s Cross of the Ordre Merite of the Federal
Republic of Polen
Memberships
• Austrian Law Association;
• Austrian Society for Political Science;
• Austrian Society for Ecclesiastical Law;
• Austrian Chapter of the International Institute of Administrative
Sciences, Brussels.
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