Jutta Stefan-Bastl

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Jutta Stefan-Bastl (born September 26, 1946 in Graz ; born Jutta Bastl ) is an Austrian diplomat . She was the Austrian ambassador to Slovenia , India and Japan .

Life

1964-1968 she studied law at the University of Graz and received his doctorate for a doctor of law . From 1968 to 1970 she did a court internship in Graz and Vienna . From 1970 to 1972 she attended the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna , where she has been teaching on European security issues since 1996.

Jutta Stefan-Bastl is married and has one son.

Diplomatic career

Austrian Embassy in Tokyo 2007

After she was with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (BMaA) from 1972 to 1973 , she was sent to the Austrian representation at the United Nations Office in Geneva from 1973 to 1975 . From 1975 to 1981 she was First Secretary at the Austrian Embassy in Abidjan , Ivory Coast . In the General Secretariat of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (BMaA) she then worked on international law until 1985. Her next assignment abroad was from 1985 to 1990, when she was assigned to the Austrian Embassy in Beijing . From there she moved to Slovenia in 1991 as Austrian Consul General .

Jutta Stefan-Bastl had her first accreditation as an ambassador in Slovenia - from 1992 to 1994 she was Austrian ambassador there. In 1995 she returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was head of the permanent Austrian Mission and Head of Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including chairing the OSCE Council, which meets at least once a week in Vienna, from January to December 2000. In April 2001 she stood for election as judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , but lost the election as did her competitor Elisabeth Bertagnoli against Elisabeth Steiner .

From 2002 to 2007, Jutta Stefan-Bastl was Herbert Traxl's successor as ambassador in India with additional accreditation in Bangladesh , Bhutan , Nepal , the Maldives and Sri Lanka . From June 2007 to June 2012 she was the Austrian ambassador to Japan. Your successor in Tokyo is Bernhard Zimburg . As the Austrian ambassador to Japan, she was also automatically honorary chairman of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic Studies of East Asia .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Working paper of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, meetings from 23 to 27 April 2001, page 184 (English)
  2. The then Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky writes on page 411 of his memoirs entitled Political Memoirs, published in 2004 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag : “The head of the OSCE department in the Vienna Foreign Ministry, Jutta Stefan-Bastl, was an excellent advisor, as was the Secretary General of the OSCE, Giancarlo Aragona , an indispensable spiritus rector of the organizational ... "
  3. Elisabeth Steiner succeeds Willi Fuhrmann . News from April 26, 2001 in the Wiener Zeitung
  4. Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the OAG
  5. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 ( PDF ; 6.9 MB)