Erhard Busek

Erhard Busek, 2013.

Erhard Busek (born 25 March 1941 in Vienna, Austria) is a politician from the Christian-conservative People's Party (ÖVP). At present he is Coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative (SECI) and Chairman of the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe among other things.

Busek was chief of the party and Vice-Chancellor of Austria in the coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Austria with the People's Party between 1991–1995 and was an important reformer of the Austrian Universities. From January 2002 until June 2008 Busek served as Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, the final person to hold the position.

Career overview

Erhard Busek earned his Doctor of Laws degree at the University of Vienna in 1963.[1] During his studies, he also served as Chairman of the Austrian Youth Council. He is a Roman Catholic. He was a Boy Scout in his youth.[2][3]

He began his professional career in 1964 as legal adviser to the association of the parliamentarians of the Austrian People’s Party. He then served as Secretary General of the Austrian Federation for Trade and Commerce (1968–1975). In 1975 he was appointed Secretary General of the Austrian People’s Party and was elected Member of Parliament later that year. Erhard Busek gained additional experience in administration between 1968-1976 while with a publishing firm in the economic field. In 1976 Busek entered municipal politics. He was City Councilor and was elected Deputy-Mayor of Vienna in 1978, a position he held until 1987. He was appointed Minister for Science and Research in April 1989. From 1994 until May 1995 Busek was Minister for Education. He was elected Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party in 1991 and served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1991 to 1995. In early 2000 Busek was appointed as Special Representative of the Austrian Government on EU-Enlargement. He served in that position until December 2001.

Busek has delivered many lectures on domestic and foreign topics and has participated in many conferences in Austria and abroad. He is Dr. hc. of the Universities of Kraków, of Bratislava, of Brasov and Czernowitz, of Liberec and of Webster-St. Louis University Vienna. He is Rector of the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Visiting Professor at Duke University, NC, USA, and at the University of Agriculture in Vienna. He is also teaching at the University Innsbruck and the University of Vienna. In addition his lectures are planned to be involved in the teaching programme of the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) and the University of Belgrade, Serbia, too.

From January 2002 until June 2008 Busek served as Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Furthermore, he is the Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI); Chairman of the “Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe” and President of the European Forum Alpbach.

He also has received awards and decorations from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. He is Honourer Senator of the Medical University of Innsbruck and is laureate of the Corvinus-Price of the "Europa Institut Budapest".

Since 2008, Busek agreed to advise the Economic Initiative for Kosovo in promoting foreign direct investments in Kosovo.[4]

Current positions

He is currently:

Every year Busek and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General, award the annual Erhard Busek SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe, in collaboration with the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) in Vienna.

Biography

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2002 - 2008: Special Co-Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

2000 - 2001: Special Representative of the Austrian Government for the Enlargement of the European Union

1996–Present: Coordinator - Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI)

1995–Present: Chairman - Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)

1991-1995 Vice Chancellor - Republic of Austria Chairman - Austrian People’s Party

1994-1995 Minister for Education

1989-1994 Minister for Science and Research

1978-1987 Deputy Mayor and City Councillor - City of Vienna

1976-1989 Chairman - Vienna’s People’s Party

1976-1978 Member of Parliament

1975-1976 General Secretary - Austrian People’s Party

1972-1976 General Secretary - Austrian Federal of Trade and Commerce

1964-1968 Secretary of the Parliament of the Austrian National Council

As of 1989 Collaboration with Transforming Economies

Before 1989 Engagement with Democratic and Dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and the Former East Germany.

1959-1963 Doctor of Law, University of Vienna, Faculty of Law

1959 High School Degree, Vienna, Austria

Books

References

  1. "Who is who in the Austrian Parliament". Dr. Erhard Busek (in German). Republic of Austria. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  2. "Eingeschlagene Pfade". Skills-100 Jahre Pfadfinder.Magazin zum Abenteuer des Lebens. (in German) (Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs und Monopol Verlag): 104–105. 2007.
  3. Kati Kieser;Lisa Niederdorfer (2010). "Dabei gewesen". Skills-Pfadfinderinnen und Aussen.Magazin zum Abenteuer des Lebens. (in German) (Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs und Monopol Verlag): 66–67.
  4. Erhard Busek to advise ECIKS in promoting FDI to Kosovo http://www.eciks.org/english/lajme.php?action=total_news&main_id=855
  5. http://www.idm.at/_ber_uns/vorstand/Vorstandsvorsitzender--a47.html

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