Martin Eichtinger

Ambassador, Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

born 1961 in Graz, Austria, J.D. , postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna/Italy and Paris. He joined the Austrian Foreign Service in 1986 and served as personal secretary to the Foreign Minister. His diplomatic assignments included Mexico and Washington, D.C., where he headed the Austrian Press and Information Service from 1992-1999. Between 1999 and 2007, he was Chief of Cabinet of the Austrian Special Representative for Payments to Former Forced and Slave Laborers of the Nazi-Regime, Director for International Affairs at the Austrian Federation of Industry, manager in a private company, Chief of Staff and later Secretary General of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Austrian Ambassador to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Since July 2010, he has been Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Martin Eichtinger

Ambassador, Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

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