Helene Steinhäusl

Helene Steinhäusl (born April 4, 1960 ) is an Austrian diplomat. She has been Austria's ambassador in Jakarta since 2016 .

Career

Steinhäusl received a Master of Philosophy in French and Italian at the University of Salzburg in 1983. She completed postgraduate studies at the University of Reims (1982), the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1983–1984), the Diplomatic Academy Vienna (1985–1987) and the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris (September 1986).

Steinhäusl worked from 1983 to 1984 as a German teacher in France and from 1984 to 1985 in Austria for French and Italian.

Steinhäusl then moved to the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, Foreign Affairs and from August 1987 to July 1988 was an advisor in the Department of Transport Affairs in Vienna . Until January 1989 she was an attachée at the Austrian Embassy in Dakar ( Senegal ). Steinhäusl was back in Vienna as an advisor in the department for legal and consular affairs until August 1989, before moving to Brussels as an advisor to the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union until August 1999 . From September 1999 to July 2003 Steinhäusl was head of the department for the coordination of EU affairs in Vienna. This was followed by the position of director for EU coordination and preparation for the Austrian EU Council Presidency in 2006 until August 2007 .

From September 2007 Steinhäusl held her first ambassadorial post at the representation of Austria at UNESCO in Paris. From August 2011 she was Minister in the Department for Relations with UNESCO. This was followed by the position of director for coordinating development cooperation in Vienna from September 2012 to September 2016. Steinhäusl has been the Austrian ambassador to Indonesia , East Timor and ASEAN since September 2016, succeeding Andreas Karabaczek . The headquarters of the embassy is in Jakarta, Indonesia.

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors in Indonesia
• List of Austrian ambassadors in East Timor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Federal Ministry of Europe, Integration, Foreign Affairs, Republic of Austria: [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on May 3, 2017.