Karl Schramek

Schramek at a discussion event in 2012

Karl Schramek (born August 27, 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian diplomat . From 2008 to 2015 he was the Austrian ambassador to Belgium and head of the Austrian mission to NATO .

Life

Karl Schramek graduated from the Bundesrealgymnasium Vienna XV in 1967 in Diefenbachgasse. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1972 from the University of Vienna . After military service and legal practice, he completed the 10th course at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna from 1973 to 1975 .

In 1975 Schramek joined the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs . From 1977 he worked at the Austrian Embassy in Budapest ( Hungary ), from 1980 at the Austrian Embassy Dakar ( Senegal ), from where he also worked in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone was accredited. In 1983 he was transferred back to Budapest; from 1984 he was director of the Austrian cultural institute there.

From 1985 Schramek headed the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, Nonproliferation in the Foreign Ministry and in this role also represented Austria in the Permanent UN Disarmament Conference  (UNCD) in Geneva, in the UN Disarmament Committee  (CD) in New York and in the International Atomic Energy Agency  (IAEA) in Vienna.

In the years 1990 and 1991 in Schramek was SPÖ - parliamentary group worked until 1996 he was International Secretary of the SPÖ. He was then foreign policy advisor to Chancellors Vranitzky (1996) and Klima (1997).

In 1997 he became Foreign Policy Advisor  to Donald J. Johnston, Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) . In 1998 he became the Austrian ambassador to the OECD .

After interim management of two departments of the Foreign Ministry, he became Austrian Ambassador to Syria from 2004 to 2008 . From 2008 to 2015 Schramek was Austrian Ambassador to Belgium and at the same time head of the Austrian Mission to NATO.

Individual evidence

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Austrian Foreign Ministry , Embassy Brussels → The Ambassador (accessed in January 2012)

1. ↑ Department II.8 - Disarmament, Arms Control, Non-Proliferation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BMeiA  
2. ↑ Department III.5 - Coordination concerning the ASTV I; Lisbon Agenda; Internal market, industry, research, employment, social policy, health, education, standards; Agriculture, fishing; Economic relations with the EU member states  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Department I.5 - Organization of international conferences and matters of international organizations in Austria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ See Austria's participation in the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) and in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BMeiA
4. ↑ Area of ​​responsibility of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs: Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels , Report of the Court of Auditors, September 2010 (pdf, rechnungshof.gv.at; 2.3 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter Jankowitsch	Permanent representative of Austria to the OECD 1998–2003	Ulrich Stacher
Michael Linhart	Austrian Ambassador to Syria 2004–2008	Maria Kunz
Franz Cede	Austrian Ambassador to Belgium Permanent Representative of Austria to NATO 2008–2015	Jürgen Meindl