Dr. Albert Rohan

Education:

Secondary School in Salzburg and Feldkirch, Austria and Vannes, France
Legal studies in Vienna and Graz, Austria: 1960 Doctor of Law

1960/61 Insurance Company “Le Monde”, Paris, France
1961/62 College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
1963 Entry into the Austrian Diplomatic Service
1963-66 Multilateral Economic Department
1966-68 Embassy Belgrade
1969-75 Embassy London
1975/76 Multilateral Economic Department
1977-81 Director, Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, New York, USA
1982-85 Director, Department for International Organisations
1985-89 Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay
1990-95 Director, Department for Central-, East- and South-East Europe
1993-95 Deputy Director-General for Political Affairs
1994/95 National Coordinator for the Central European Initiative
1996-2001 Secretary General for Foreign Affairs

At present Ambassador Rohan works as lecturer, political commentator for radio, television and print media. He is author of the book “Diplomat on the Fringes of World Politics”, Molden, October 2002.
Lectures on Developments in the Balkans, the Situation in the Middle East, Russia, the Transatlantic Relations and European Affairs at Universities of Princeton, Toronto, Ottawa, Budapest, Cracow and Vienna, Council for Foreign Relations, New York, Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, Foreign Policy Associations in Munich, Lubjiana and Vienna, EURAC Bolzano, PANEUROPA Movement in Vienna and Innsbruck, UN Association of Austria a.o.

Languages: German, English, French, Spanish.

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