Eva Nowotny

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Eva Nowotny (born February 17, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian diplomat and was ambassador to France , the United Kingdom and the United States .

Life

She has been in the service of the Foreign Ministry since 1973. After being posted to Cairo and New York City , where she worked for the United Nations , she returned to Austria. From 1983 to 1992 Nowotny worked as a foreign policy advisor to Federal Chancellors Fred Sinowatz and Franz Vranitzky . She then worked as the Austrian ambassador to France (February 1992 – April 1997) and the United Kingdom (1997–1999).
In 2000 she became - although close to the SPÖ - under ÖVP Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel and Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner Section Head of the Integration and Economic Policy Section in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (for EU integration ).
From October 2003 to December 2008 she served as Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC . Eva Nowotny was appointed President of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO for the period from 2009 to 2012 . She was reappointed at the end of her first term. She will hand over to Sabine Haag on February 17, 2018 .

She is also a board member of the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the United Nations (ÖGAVN), the Bruno Kreisky Forum and CARE Austria. In 2016 she followed the call of the course leader Bernd Hermann and acts together with Gregor Woschnagg as patron of the diploma course Global Advancement Program . Since March 2013 she has been Chair of the University Council of the University of Vienna . The ex-ambassador let herself be carried away with malicious comments such as " Frozen " to Minister Karoline Edtstadler on Facebook, thus fueling anti-women sentiment in politics. Another Facebook user replied that Edtstadler was like emetics.

Personal

Eva Nowotny is married to Thomas Nowotny , a retired diplomat, author, and lecturer on international relations . She has a daughter and two grandchildren.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remise de lettres de créance , JORF n ° 41 du 18 février 1993, p. 2632, NOR MAEP9350004E.
  2. ↑ "Today the entire EU preparatory work is concentrated in the section headed by Eva Nowotny, which, I believe, is also a very important signal that party lines are irrelevant." Wolfgang Schüssel, Government Declaration 2000, in: 661. Meeting of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria. Shorthand protocol, Friday, February 18, 2000, p. 10 (online, parlament.gv.at)
  3. ^ Presidium of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO ( Memento from March 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ ÖGAVN team
  5. ^ Board of Directors of the Bruno Kreisky Forum ( Memento from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The CARE Team (care.at) ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ^ Members of the University Council , accessed April 8, 2013
  9. ↑ Edtstadler: "Hantig, eiskalt oder eine Furie" , accessed on February 15, 2015
  10. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Official. (No longer available online.) Wiener Zeitung , March 18, 2009, archived from the original on February 12, 2010 ; Retrieved March 18, 2009 .
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
predecessor Office successor
Wolfgang Schallenberg Austrian Ambassador in Paris
1993–1997 		Franz Ceska
Georg Hennig Austrian Ambassador in London
1997 - June 21, 2000 		Alexander Christiani
Peter Moser Austrian Ambassador in Washington
2003–2009 		Christian Prosl
personal data
SURNAME Nowotny, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna