DI Andrä RUPPRECHTER

Minister, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna

1988-1989	Assistant to the Director, Austrian Farmers' Union, Vienna
1989-1997	Member, Cabinet of Austrian Federal Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry Franz Fischler, Wilhelm Molterer, Vienna
1993-1994	Member, Negotiation team on expert level for the agriculture chapter of the Austrian accession negotiations to the European Union
1995-2002	Head, EU-Coordination Unit, Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna; Austrian Spokesman, SCA - Special Committee on Agriculture, Council of the European Union, Brussels
1998	President, SCA - Special Committee on Agriculture, Council of the European Union, Brussels
1998-2002	Deputy Director General, Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna
2002-2007	Director General, Department Agriculture and Nutrition, Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna
2006	Head, National delegation, Council of Agriculture, Council of the European Union, Brussels
2007-2013	Director for Rural Development and Agriculture Finances, General Secretariat, Council of the European Union, Brussels
since 2013	Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management of the Republic of Austria, Vienna
since 2017	President, Union of European Federalists Austria, Vienna

DI Ingmar HÖBARTH

Managing Director, Climate and Energy Fund, Vienna

1982-1995	Studies, Landscape Ecology and Planning, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
1982	Founding member, GLOBAL 2000; "Freunde von Greenpeace", Vienna
1982-1988	Formation and development, GLOBAL 2000, Management of environmental protection campaigns (e.g. Power plant Hainburg, acid rain, transit traffic)
1983-2006	Member, "Plenum", GLOBAL 2000, Vienna
1992-2006	Chairman, GLOBAL 2000, Vienna
1995-2006	Political chief executive, GLOBAL 2000, Vienna
1996-2006	Head, Department "Politics & campaigns", GLOBAL 2000, Vienna
1998-2006	Representative, GLOBAL 2000 at "Friends of the Earth International"
1998-2006	Board Member, Ökobüro, Vienna
since 2007	Chief Executive, Climate and Energy Fund, Vienna

Mag.a (FH) Silvia SCHWEIGER-FUCHS

Managing Director, BTW Plant Solutions and REDWAVE, BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH, Gleisdorf

	Diploma, College for international business relationship, Eisenstadt
2007-2013	Sales; Project management, REDWAVE, BTW Plant Solutions
since 2013	Managing Director, Finance and Controlling, Fuchs Holding GmbH

Dr. Manfred STADLBAUER

Senior Researcher, Economica - Institute of Economic Research, Vienna

1998-1999	Marketing Systems Analyst, Procter & Gamble, Schwalbach
1999-2001	Forschungsassistent, Doktorand, JKU, Linz
2002-2003	Forscher, Borealis GmbH, Linz
2004-2006	Projektleiter F&E, Borealis GmbH, Linz
2006-2008	Gruppenleiter, F&E, Borealis GmbH, Linz
2008-2009	Strategischer Einkaufsleiter, Polymere, Plastal GmbH, Weißenburg
seit 2009	Gründungsgesellschafter und Geschäftsführer, TechMeter GmbH, Hagenberg
seit 2013	Senior Researcher, Economica, Wien

Dr. Helge WENDENBURG

Director-General for Water Management and Resource Conservation, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Bonn

1979-1982	Doctorate in law, Institute for Political Science, University of Göttingen
1983-1990	District Government of Brunswick
1990-2005	Ministry of Environment, Lower Saxony, Germany
since 2005	Head, Directorate for Water Management and Resource Conservation, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Bonn
2014-2017	President, ICPE International Commission for the Protection of the Elbe River, Magdeburg

Mag. Georg REBERNIG

Managing Director, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna

1981-1989	Studium der Handelswissenschaften an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Abschluss Mag.rer.soc.oec.
1989	Revisionsassistent, Danubia Wirtschaftstreuhandgesellschaft mbH
1989-1990	Erstellung einer Studie "Ökosteuern" im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie
1990-1994	Stellvertretender Leiter der Abteilung Umweltökonomie und Energie, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie
1994-1999	Umweltattaché, Ständige Vertretung Österreichs bei der EU, Brüssel
1998	Vorsitzender der Arbeitsgruppe Umwelt des Rates der EU während der österreichischen Präsidentschaft
seit 1999	Geschäftsführer, Umweltbundesamt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
seit 2002	Alleingeschäftsführer

Dipl.-Ing. Andreas TSCHULIK

Head of Department, Environmental Protection at Company Level and Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna

1980-1987	Studies, Technical Physics, Vienna University of Technology
1987-1989	Assistant Professor, General Physics Institute, Vienna University of Technology
1989-1994	Unit I/3, Environmental Research and Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Vienna
1993-1994	Head, Subunit I/3b, Environmental Research, Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Vienna
1994-1996	Head, Unit I/2 - Environmental Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Vienna
since 1996	Head, Unit V/7 - Environmental Management and Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Vienna

Mag. Dr. MBA Josef BEHOFSICS

Collaborator, Department of Environmental Protection at Company Level and Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna

1994-2001	Principal Administrator for the Environment, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Protection, Vienna
2001-2009	Economic Advisor on Environmental and Nuclear Topics, Permanent Representation of Austria to the OECD, Paris
since 2010	Department Environmental Protection at Company Level and Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Protection, Vienna