Gregor Schusterschitz

Gregor Schusterschitz

Gregor Schusterschitz (born April 4, 1970 in Munich ) is an Austrian diplomat . Schusterschitz was the Austrian ambassador to Luxembourg from August 2015 to August 2019 . Since August 2019 he has been ambassador to the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels .

Life

Gregor Schusterschitz was born in Munich and studied law and political science in Innsbruck, Linz and Washington DC, which he obtained with the academic title MMag. graduated from the University of Innsbruck . He is married and has three children. In addition to his professional career, Schusterschitz publishes academic articles in the areas of international law and European law .

Diplomatic career

Schusterschitz started in 1996 in Department I.2 for General International Law in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs , where he worked until 2000 and was involved, among other things, in the preparatory work for the establishment of the Commission of Historians .

From 2000 to 2003 Schusterschitz press officer was at the Austrian Embassy in Prague , from 2003 to the end of 2005 Minister Counselor at the Austrian Embassy in The Hague . With the start of the Austrian Presidency in January 2006, he was assigned as head of the legal department at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, where he Council working party on comitology and that the drafting of the founding regulation for during the Presidency Fundamental Rights Agency launched . During his chairmanship of RAG on comitology , the regulatory procedure with scrutiny was worked out. In 2007 he was the Austrian representative in the group of legal experts for the drafting of the Lisbon Treaty .

After his transfer abroad, he returned to the ministry in 2009, where he was initially deputy head of the department for European law and in January 2010 he took over the management of the department for general international law (I.2). He held the function until August 2014. During this time he was u. a. responsible for questions of international sanctions (Tunisia, Libya, Ukraine, North Korea etc.), was head of the Austrian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and regularly took part in the autumn meeting of the 6th Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York.

In 2014 Schusterschitz was again transferred to Brussels as Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU. In this function he represented Austria in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) I. After just one year, he was the successor of Thomas Oberreiter as the Austrian ambassador in Luxembourg, apparently to make room for a political occupation. Since the resistance against the rumored transfer of the cabinet chief of the finance minister to Brussels was obviously too great, Thomas Oberreiter succeeded Gregor Schusterschitz in Brussels. Since March 2017, Schusterschitz has also been an Austrian delegate to the Brexit negotiations. Since August 2019 he has again been the Austrian representative in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) I.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} CV on the website of the Austrian Foreign Ministry , accessed in December 2016
2. ↑ Der Standard, January 15, 2015
3. ↑ NZZ.at, September 7, 2015
4. ↑ Brexit negotiations: Diplomat represents Austria. June 19, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .