| 1967-1972 | Studies Law, Serbo-Croatian and Russian language at Graz University |
| 1972-1974 | Diplomatic Academy in Vienna |
| 1974-1978 | UN OP Office Ulan Bator, Mongolia |
| 1978-1980 | UNDP Office Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 1981-1982 | Eastern and South East European Department, including Yugoslavia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vienna |
| 1982-1986 | Press Department, Austrian Embassy Belgrade, Serbia |
| 1986-1989 | Deputy Chairman of the Disarmament Commission, Austrian Mission to the UN, New York, 1st and 5th Committee |
| 1989-1990 | Deputy Head of Press and Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vienna |
| 1991-1995 | Founding Director of the Austrian Cultural Institute, Prague |
| 1992 | Founding Head of the OSCE Observer Mission in Novi Pazar, Sandzhak, Serbia |
| 1996-1999 | First post-war Ambassador of Austria to Bosnia Herzegovina |
| 2000-2004 | Head of Eastern and South East European Department and COWEB delegate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2002 | Observer of the Montenegrin Parliamentary Elections |
| 2005-2009 | Austrian Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia |
| since 2009 | EU Special Representative in Bosnia Herzegovina |
| 1985-1987 | Foreign Relations Advisor, President of Croatia, Croatia |
| 1987-1992 | General Manager, Croatian Television, Croatia |
| 1992-1996 | General Manager, MicroLAB, Croatia |
| 1996-2008 | Chairman, ECEE Microsoft Corporation |
| | Chairman, SEE Microsoft Corporation |
| | General Manager and Board Member; SEE Microsoft Corporation |
| | General Manager, Microsoft Croatia |
| 2008 | Chairman, SenseConsulting, Croatia |
| | Founder, NAUTAR, Croatia |
| 2009 | Dean, VERN´ University of Applied Sciences, Croatia |
| 1982 | Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck |
| 1983-1988 | Programme Editor and subsequently Editor in Chief, publishing House "Logos", Split |
| 1987-1990 | Member of the Editing Board, magazine "Mogunosti" ("Possibilities") |
| 1988-1991 | Manager of his own companies, Innsbruck |
| 1991-1992 | General Manager, Croatian National Theatre, Split |
| 1992 | Elected Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament |
| 1992-1993 | Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Croatia |
| 1995-1996 | Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic of Croatia and Secretary General of the Defence and National Security Council |
| 1996-2000 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia |
| 2000 | MP and Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament |
| President of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union), elected at 5th Convention of the Party in April 2000, re-elected at 7th Convention of the Party |
| 2003-2009 | Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia |
| 1985 | BA in Economics and Business Administration, University of Prishtina |
| 1988 | MBA, University of Prishtina |
| | PhD studies for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Vaxjo University, Sweden and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain |
| 1995 | Presentation of PhD thesis in Strategic Alternatives, "Economic Integration and Development of Albanian Territories and Their Integration Into Europe - A Quantitative Approach" Trepça Mining Company, Foreign Trade Department |
| | During 1990s he worked in private business in the area of education, founder of "The Cambridge School" |
| | Policy Advisor, Economic Development within Pillar IV (European Union Mission in Kosovo) |
| 2000-2002 | Deputy Head, Department for Trade and Industry, in charge of directing the strategy development, polices and procedures for commercialization and transformation of Socially Owned Enterprises and private sector development |
| | Deputy Managing Director, directing the division for managing and privatization of Kosovo´s nearly 500 socially-owned enterprises, Kosovo Trust Agency |
| 2008 | Minister of Finance and Economy, Republic of Kosovo, Prishtina |
| | Professor of Marketing Modeling and Statistics, Economic Faculty, University of Prishtina |
| | Lecturer for Mathematics, Statistics and Economic Modeling |
| 1981-1985 | Studium an der juridischen Fakultät und am Institut für Slawistik, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz |
| 1997 | Teilnahme an der Ukrainian Summer School, Harvard University, USA |
| 1998 | Einmonatiges Stipendium, Duke-Universität in North Carolina auf Einladung der Austrian-American-Foundation (abschließend wurden auch Medien in New York und Washington besucht) |
| | Als Korrespondent zählt zum Tätigkeitsbereich die Berichterstattung über Serbien und Montenegro, die ehemaligen jugoslawischen Teilrepubliken Mazedonien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kroatien, Slowenien, den Kosovo und Albanien sowie die Führung des ORF-Büros in Belgrad. Verbunden war und ist diese journalistische Tätigkeit mit ausgedehnten Reisen durch die Zielländer in der Region. |
| | Fremdsprachenkenntnisse: Englisch, Russisch, Ukrainisch, Serbisch (sehr gut), Französisch (gut), Slowenisch (gut), Mazedonisch (passiv gut), Albanisch (Grundkenntnisse) |
| 2014 | Journalist des Jahres |
| seit 2014 | Korrespondent des ORF für die Ukraine |
