Officers & Trustees
Barbara Weitgruber
Barbara Weitgruber
Barbara Weitgruber is Vice President of the Austrian Marshall Plan and Director General for Scientific Research, International Relations, Gender Equality and Diversity Management at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF).
Before joining the ministry in 1994 as Director for European and international relations, she was Director of the Office for International Relations and lecturer in media and intercultural communications at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and Director of the Austrian National Agency for EU Education Programs.
She holds a "Master" degree in English/American and Interdisciplinary Studies, a Certificate in Mass Media and a Translator´s Diploma in English from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria and a M.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois at Chicago, US, where she started her professional career as a Fulbright Scholarship Holder and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Communications and Theater.
Barbara Weitgruber is member in various committees, including the Task Force for Research, Technology and Innovation of the Austrian Federal Government and the Austrian Fulbright Commission and chairs the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria as well as the board of the Austrian Council for Research, Science, Innovation and Technology.
„The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation offers a wide range of opportunities for people to people contacts with a strong focus on academic exchange. Join us in our endeavor to enhance bilateral and transatlantic cooperation and understanding.“