| 1971-1978 | Paul Kiefel, Freilassing/Germany (1971-72), Export Department; Gerns and Gahler, Freilassing/Germany, Director for Export Promotion |
| 1978-1981 | P. Kaufmann Inc., New York, Sales Director for Europe |
| 1981-1983 | Gerns and Gahler, Freilassing/Germany, Chief Management Assistant |
| 1984 | Austrian Embassy, Madrid, Spain |
| 1984-1986 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs Department of Economic Affairs, Department of Political Affairs, Department of Consular Affairs |
| 1986 | Austrian Embassy, Dakar, Senegal, First Secretary |
| 1986-1987 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Development Co-operation |
| 1987-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Paris, Counsellor for Economic Affairs |
| 1990-1993 | Austrian Embassy, Paris, First Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission, Chargé d'Affairs a.i. |
| 1993 | Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Chief of Protocol |
| 1994-1995 | UN Chief of Protocol |
| 1995-2000 | State Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
| 2000-2004 | Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria |
| since 2004 | European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Brussels |
| 1971-1975 | Assistant Professor of History, Hamilton College, New York |
| 1975-1978 | Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Berlin |
| 1982-1984 | Vice President for Academic Affairs, Longwood College, Virginia |
| 1984-1985 | Senior Vice President, International Management and Development Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| 1985-1992 | Director, West European Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. |
| 1990 | Member of the U.S. delegation to the Copenhagen CSCE Conference |
| 1991 | Guest Professor at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen |
| 1992-1994 | Chief, European Division, Library of Congress |
| 1994-2005 | Democratic Staff Director for European Affairs, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senior Advisor to U.S. Vice President (then-Senator) Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| 1993 | , 2000, 2006 Member of the U.S. delegation to the Wehrkunde Security Conference, Munich |
| 2000 | Speech at Assemblée Nationale, Paris |
| 2004 | Member of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Boris Tadic as President of Serbia |
| 2004 | Speech at Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin |
| 2005 | Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Copenhagen |
| 2005-2006 | Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and Principal, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP |
| since 2006 | Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. |
| since 2007 | Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates (formerly Kissinger McLarty Associates), Washington, D.C. |
| 2009 | Speech at OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna |
| 2009 | Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 2009 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw |
| 2010 | Head of the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE 20th Anniversary Conference in Copenhagen |
| 1942 | Mit deutschem Strafbataillon nach Russland entsandt, später nach Verwundung in Frankreich und Italien |
| 1944 | Flucht vor Verhaftung durch die NS-Behörden zu den italienischen Partisanen, aktive Untergrundarbeit im besetzten Österreich und in Norditalien |
| 1945 | zuerst Sekretär des österreichischen Außenministers Karl Gruber in Wien, danach einige Jahre als österreichischer Diplomat in den USA |
| ab 1950 | Redakteur und später Verlagsdirektor |
| ab 1953 | Herausgeber und später Chefredakteur der "Presse" |
| 1954 | Gründer des ersten österreichischen Nachrichtenmagazins "Wochenpresse" |
| 1958 | Gründer und Herausgeber der Boulevard Zeitung "Express" |
| ab 1962 | Abbau aller Zeitungsfunktionen |
| 1964 | Gründung des Buchverlages "Fritz Molden", danach Leiter des Molden Verlages bis zu dessen Ende 1982 |
| 1976-2004 | Präsident des "Auslandsösterreicherwerkes" in Wien |
| 1982-1994 | Freier Schriftsteller und Filmemacher (TV-Dokumentationen) |
| 1984-1991 | Lehrbeauftragter für Verlagswesen (Buch) am Institut für Publizistik und Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Wien |
| 1985-1992 | Gastprofessor an der Diplomatischen Akademie in Wien im Lehrfach "Die Medien und der Diplomatische Dienst" |
| 1988-1995 | Konsulent der Chefredaktion der Tageszeitung "Der Standard", Wien |
| 1995-2005 | wieder Verleger (Molden Verlag Wien) |
| seit 2005 | wieder Schriftsteller |
