William DROZDIAK

Executive Director, German Marshall Fund, Brussels

	seven years professional basketball player
	20 years editor and correspondent for The Washington Post

Dr. Benita FERRERO-WALDNER

European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Brussels

1966-1970	University of Salzburg, study of law (Dr. Iuris)
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

Ph.D. M.A. B.A. Michael HALTZEL

Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS - School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates, Washington, D.C.

1969-1971	Tutor and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Massachusetts
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

Hella PICK, CBE

Writer and Conference Organisor for Lord Weidenfeld

	Studied Political Science at the London School of Economics (London University)
1957-1960	Journalist with "West Africa"
	Freelance works for BBC etc.
	Consultant
1961-1996	Journalist with "The Guardian", as UN correspondent, Washington correspondent, Diplomatic Editor

Dr. Sabine SCHAFFER

Research Fellow, Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

2002-2003	Research Fellow, Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
2000-2002	Mater in Public Administration Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
2000	Accociate, McKinsey & Company, Berlin
1994-1999	Studium der Internationalen Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leopold Franzen Universität Innsbruck (Auslandsschulen in USA, Frankreich, Lateinamerika und Thailand)

Dr. DDr.h.c. Gerald STOURZH

Professor emeritus für Geschichte der Neuzeit an der Universität Wien

1951	Promotion zum Dr.phil. an der Universität Wien
1950	er Research Associate an der University of Chicago
1962	Habilitation in Wien
1964-1969	Ordinarius an der Freien Universität Berlin
1967-1968	Member am Institut für Advanced Study, Princeton
1969-1997	Ordinarius für Geschichte der Neuzeit an der Universität Wien
1976	Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, England

Fritz P. MOLDEN

Autor und Verleger (1924-2014), Wien

ab 1940	Mehrfach Verhaftungen durch die Deutsche Gestapo wegen antinazistischer Widerstandstätigkeit
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