Officers & Trustees
Wolfgang Petritsch, President
Wolfgang Petritsch is the President of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation.
A retired career diplomat, Wolfgang Petritsch was the EU's Special Envoy for Kosovo (1998-1999), EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris (1999), and then High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002).
He served as the Austrian ambassador to the UN in Geneva (2002-2008) and to the OECD in Paris (2008-2013), and was the Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University (2013-2014).
„In times of massive geopolitical upheaval, institutions such as the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation are called upon more than ever to renew and strengthen transatlantic relations, which have been abandoned with short-sightedness. Shaping the 21st century in the spirit of liberal-democratic values – this includes fostering intellectual links between Europe and the USA. And this is what our foundation stands for.“