List of permanent representatives of Austria at the OECD

Permanent representation of Austria at the OECD in Paris Austrian authority
State level	Federation
Position of the authority	Subordinate agency
At sight	Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
founding	1958 (as a representative at the OEEC)
Headquarters	Paris , 3, rue Albéric Magnard ⊙
Authority management	Thomas Schnöll
Servants	12
Website	https://www.bmeia.gv.at/oev-oecd-paris/

The Permanent Representative of Austria to the OECD is the diplomatic representative of the Republic of Austria to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development  (OECD).

This international organization of 34  industrial nations coordinates efforts in the field of democracy and market economy . The OECD is based in Paris ; the Austrian representative has the rank of ambassador .

History and organization

The OECD was founded in 1961 as the successor organization to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation  (OEEC) and the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe. The OEEC had been operating since 1948, and Austria was its only member in which the Soviet Union, as the occupying power, had - de facto - a say in economic policy matters.

The Austrian representation was established in 1958 and promoted to embassy rank in 1960. Austria was then a founding member of the OECD in 1961. The permanent representation at the OECD was under the Federal Chancellery until the beginning of 2018 . Since January 8, 2018, it has been a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

Representation is considered to be a very important position; cooperation in the OECD is particularly relevant today in the context of international measures against tax evasion and money laundering , and it also includes general coordination issues relating to financial and financing policy in industrialized countries. Furthermore, Austrian development cooperation is financed through the OECD.

List of ambassadors

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Austria  →  OECD
Carl Heinz Bobleter	1958-1964	to the OEEC, from 1961 at the OECD, then from 1964–1968 State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry ; 1968–1978 2nd term of office
Arno Halusa	1964-1968	then (incomplete) 1972–1977 Ambassador to the USA , 1977–1979 General Secretary of the Federation of Industrialists  (IV)
Carl Heinz Bobleter	1968-1988	(2nd term of office)
Peter Jankowitsch	1978-1983	1964–1970 Ambassador to Senegal , 1970–1973 Head of Cabinet ( Kreisky I ), 1973–1978 Ambassador to the UN and 1973/4 Chairman of the UN Security Council , President of the UN Space Committee  (COPUOS); then Foreign Minister 1986–1987 , State Secretary for European Affairs in the Federal Chancellery from 1990–1993, Secretary General of the Austro-French Center  (OEFZ) since 1998 ; President of the Austrian Space Agency , and others.
Georg Lennkh	1983-1993	before 1978–1982 in the Kreisky III / IV cabinet ; then 1993–2004 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Director General Development Cooperation), 1998–2000 Burundi EU mission , 2005–2010 Austrian  special envoy for Africa and 2006–2010 EU special envoy in Chad
Peter Jankowitsch	1993-1998	(2nd term of office)
Karl Schramek	1998-2003	before 1984–1985 Director of the Cultural Institute in Budapest , 1985–1990 at the Foreign Ministry (Disarmament Department ), 1991–1996 International Secretary of the SPÖ , 1996–1997 Foreign Policy Advisor to the Federal Chancellor ( Vranitzky , Klima ), 1997–1998 General Secretary of the OECD; then ambassador to Syria from 2004–2008 , since 2008 to Belgium and head of mission to NATO
Ulrich Stacher	2003-2008	Before that (incomplete) from 1987 at the Federal Chancellery (Head of Section Coordination Matters), 1999 Coordination Commission for Information Technology  (KIT) at the BMöLS
Wolfgang Petritsch	2008-2013	Before that 1997–1999 Ambassador to Belgrade and EU Special Representative for Kosovo, 1999–2002 High Representative of the UN for Bosnia and Herzegovina , 2002–2008 Ambassador to the UN in Geneva
Maria Elisabeth Stubits-Weidinger	2013-2018	Before that, National Bank, in 2011 Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Federal Chancellor (Faymann) and Office Manager of the State Secretary for Media and Government Coordination (Ostermayer) at the Federal Chancellery
Thomas Schnöll	since 2018	Before that 2015–2018 press spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2013–2015 Ambassador to Tirana, 2010–2013 Consul General in Chicago, 2004–2009 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Head of the Western Balkans Department)

Source: Federal Chancellery; As of 2016

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors

literature

• Veronika Haschka, Petra Stefenelli, Isabelle Hassler, Daniela Herta, Roland Schneider, Brigitte Hutter, Thomas Eder (collaborators): 50 years of the OECD - 50 years of Austria in the OECD . Festival brochure. Ed .: Federal Chancellery, Division IV / 7: OECD Affairs, Science and Research, Technology, Education. Vienna July 2011 ( pdf , bka.gv.at [accessed on January 26, 2011]).

Web links

• Permanent representation at the OECD in Paris , homepage at the Federal Chancellery (BKA)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the history and understanding of the OECD and Austria's relations . In: Federal Chancellery (Ed.): 50 Years of the OECD . From OEEC to OECD , p. 10 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lit. Bundeskanzleramt (Ed.): 50 Years of the OECD . 2011, table, p. 20 .
3. ^ Structure of Austrian representations within the EU. Report of the Court of Auditors: Bund 2014/8, Vienna 2014, p. 28 and note 6 ibid. ( Pdf , rechnungshof.gv.at)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Faymann promotes employee to Paris. In: der Standard online, July 4, 2013.
5. ^ Austro-French Center for Rapprochement in Europe
6. ↑ Georg Lennkh ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 210 kB) , World Policy Conference, 9-11. December 2011 Vienna - Austria (CV, pdf)
7. ↑ 2006 Chair of the EU Africa Working Group , head of the first EU Troika in Chad April 2006; Representative of the EU in the High Level Working Group for Côte d'Ivoire , Somalia Contact group , AU-summit, etc.
8. ↑ Division II.8 for Arms Control and Disarmament, Nonproliferation; also UN Disarmament Conference / Geneva and Committee / New York; IAEA
9. ↑ cf. Ingeborg Waldinger: Austria's ambassador to the OECD, on globalization competition: "Profitability should not be the measure of all things" , interview with Ulrich Stacher. In: Wiener Zeitung of November 23, 2007.
10. ↑ As such, Stacher and chief negotiator Manfred Scheich prepared Austria's accession to the EU , Stacher was present at the signing of the contract, cf. Austria's signature of the act of accession to the European Union (Corfu, 24 June 1994) , photo: Jean Guyaux, Signature des actes d'adhésion à l'Union européenne. Corfou: Commission européenne, 24/06/1994, on CVCE - Un center de recherche et de documentation sur l'Europe au Luxembourg; See also inquiry 505 / AB  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. XX GGP  
11. ↑ cf. Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Public Achievement and Sport on the establishment and the rules of procedure of the Coordination Commission for Information Technology (KIT) StF: Federal Law Gazette II No. 402/2000
12. ↑ The ambassador. ÖB OECD Paris, accessed on July 22, 2019 .