Ambassador Dr. Klaus WÖLFER

Former head of division II.5 “South-Eastern Europe and EU Enlargement” and deputy political director, Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna

Since 2021
Consultant, publicist, moderator (International Relations, Economy, Ecology)

September 2020 – April 2021
Special Representative for the Western Balkans

2019 – 2020
Deputy Political Director

September 2017 – April 2021
Director for South-East Europe and EU Enlargement at the Federal Ministry for
European and International Affairs, Vienna

2012 – 2017
Ambassador to Turkey, Ankara

2007 – 2011
Ambassador to Indonesia, Singapore and East Timor, Permanent Representative
at ASEAN, Jakarta

2002 – 2006
Head of the Art Section at the Federal Chancellery, Vienna

1996 – 2002
Director of the Austrian Cultural Institute / Cultural Forum in Rome, Italy

1991 – 1995
Work on the crisis zone in former Yugoslavia, Head of Unit, MFA Vienna

1983 – 1991
Diplomat at the Austrian embassies in Rome/Italy,
Belgrade/Yugoslavia, Budapest/Hungary and Zagreb/Croatia

1981
Entry into the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Political Section,
Middle East/Africa/Asia

1981
Graduate of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna

1979
Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, “Doctor Juris”