Dr. Eva Nowotny

President of the University Board of the University of Vienna since 2013

President of the Committee of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO 2009-2018

Nowotny, Ambassador, rtd., who holds a Ph.D. in history and German literature, has been with the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1973. Eva Nowotny is the former Austrian ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2008. Prior to assuming her post in Washington, DC, she held the position of Director General of European Integration and Economic Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna. From 1983 to 1992 she was Foreign Policy Advisor to Austrian Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, then became Austria’s Ambassador to France and the United Kingdom.