Dkfm. Dr. Hannes ANDROSCH

Industrialist; President of the Supervisory Board, AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna

1959	Diplomkaufmann
1963-1967	Zunächst Sekretär, dann Konsulent für Wirtschaftsfragen des Parlamentsklubs der SPÖ
1966	Beeideter Buchprüfer und Steuerberater
1967	Abgeordneter zum Nationalrat
1968	Beeideter Wirtschaftsprüfer und Steuerberater
	Promotion zum Doktor der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
bis 1970	Staatskommissär-Stellvertreter bei der Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde, Wien
1970-1981	Bundesminister für Finanzen
1976-1981	Vizekanzler der Republik Österreich
1979	Vorsitzender der OECD auf Ministerebene
1980	Vorsitzender des Interimskomitees des Weltwährungsfonds
1981-1988	Stellvertretender Generaldirektor (Jänner - Juni 1981), dann Generaldirektor der Creditanstalt-Bankverein
1988-1989	Konsulent der Weltbank
1989	Gründung der AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH
1994	Beginn des Aufbaues einer industriellen Beteiligungsgruppe
	Wissenschaften"
2004	Errichtung der gemeinnützigen "Stiftung Hannes Androsch bei der Österreichischen Akademie der
2010	Regierungskommissär für die österreichische Beteiligung an der Expo 2010, Shanghai
2011	Initiator des Bildungsvolksbegehrens

Ph.D. Balan GURUMOORTHY

Chief Executive, Society for Innovation and Development, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

B. Gurumoorthy is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science in the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Presently he is also serving as the Chief Executive of the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), a Society established by IISc to serve as the outreach interface for the beneficial exploitation of the innovations and the human potential existing at the Indian Institute of Science. His research interests are in the areas of CAD, Product Information Modelling, Computational Metrology and Product design and prototyping. He did his B.Tech at IIT Madras in 1982 followed by M.E. and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in 1984 and 1987 respectively (all in Mechanical Engineering). He has guided 17 Ph.D. dissertations and is presently supervising or co-supervising 6 Ph.D. students. He is working on projects funded by Faurecia and the Government of India. He has 43 Journal publications and 4 patents. He serves as Associate Editor of three journals. He is currently the Vice-Chair, Asia-Pacific, IFIP WG 5.1 on Global Product Development for the Whole Life Cycle. Two technologies (automatic feature recognition, visual interactive solids) developed in his laboratory have been licensed to industry and are in active use.

Binod HAMPAPUR

Executive Vice President and Global Head, Talent & Technology Operations and Quality, Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru

Binod Hampapur Rangadore is an Executive Vice President and the Global Head of Talent and Technology Operations & Quality.

Binod is responsible for the following functions in Infosys: Recruitment, Global Immigration, Quality, Government Relations, India Business Unit, Computer & Communications Division, Information Systems, Information Security Group, Procurement. He is a "Trustee" of the Infosys Foundation & Infosys Employee Welfare Trust. Binod has over 32 years of industry experience and has held several leadership positions at Infosys. He joined the company in 1993 as the Head of Manpower Planning. From 1996 to 1998, he was Head of the Customer Support Group for the Banking business unit. Subsequently, he was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Commercial and Facilities functions. Binod took on the role of the Global Head of Commercial and Corporate Relations functions in 2010. As a responsible corporate citizen, Binod has funded the establishment of a 150-bed hospital for Sri Sringeri Mutt. In an honorary role, he is the Chairman of the Board of Governors at Rangadore Memorial Hospital, which is named after his father, the late H.S. Rangadore. Binod started his career in MICO BOSCH as a technical sales engineer. He has a bachelor's degree in industrial and production engineering from the BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

MA Renu PALL

Indian Ambassador to Austria, Vienna

	Renu Pall, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Austria & Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1988. Her previous assignment was Joint Secretary (Indian Ocean Region) in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, a position she held from September 2015 till January 2017.
	Prior to that, from May 2011, she held the post of Joint Secretary (ASEAN Multilateral) in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, dealing with India’s Act East policy with the ASEAN and EAS and the Asia-Europe Meeting. Her overseas assignments have included Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India at Berlin, Germany; Minister (Political) at Embassy of India at Washington DC, USA; Counsellor (Political) at Embassy of India at Paris, France; and Second Secretary (Political & Information) at the Embassy of India in Moscow, Russian Federation.
	In between her overseas assignments, she has been Director for relations with United States and Canada, Director in the Foreign Secretary’s Office and Under Secretary & Deputy Secretary for relations with US and Canada in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Prior to joining IFS, she was part of the Indian Civil Accounts Service from 1985-1988, where she was Assistant Controller of Accounts in the Ministry of Finance at New Delhi.
	She has a Bachelors (Honours) degree in Political Science from Delhi University and was pursuing her Masters in International Relations from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi when she joined the Indian Civil Services in August 1985.

Mag. Brigitte ÖPPINGER-WALCHSHOFER

Austrian Ambassador to India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, New Delhi

1974-1980	Student, Vienna University of Economy and Business, Vienna
1981-1981	Student, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1982-1983	Diplomatic Academy Vienna
since 1983	Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Vienna
1983-1992	Diplomatic postings, Ankara, Paris, Pretoria
1992-1994	Department for the Middle East and Africa, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Vienna
1994-1997	Director, Unit for Africa South of the Sahara, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Vienna
1997-2001	Deputy Head of Mission, Austrian Embassy London
2001-2006	Ambassador, Embassy of Austria in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
2005-2006	Permanent Representative to the African Union, Addis Ababa
2006-2007	Head of the Department for Internal Audit, Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, Vienna
since 2007	Managing Director, Austrian Development Agency, Vienna
2012-2017	Ambassador, Embassy of Austria in South Africa, Pretoria
since 2017	Ambassador, Embassy of Austria in India, New Delhi