Speaker’s bio: Federal Minister Dr Karin Kneissl

On 18 December 2017, Dr Karin Kneissl was appointed , Lower . Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign A airs of the Republic of Austria. Karin Kneissl has also worked since 1998 as an independent commentator and correspondent for Karin Kneissl was born in 1965 in . She studied numerous German and English-speaking print media, law and Arab studies at the . She as well as for the Austrian state broadcaster ORF. She also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has authored a large number of books and the University of Amman, the University of Urbino and publications. Some of her recent publications are: was a Fulbright scholar at in Wachablöse: Auf dem Weg in eine chinesische Washington, DC. Karin Kneissl is also a graduate of the Weltordnung (Changing of the Guard: On the Path to a Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris. Chinese World Order) 2017, Mein Naher Osten (My Middle East) 2014, Prinz Eugen – vom Außenseiter zum From 1990 to 1998 Karin Kneissl held a number of Genie Europas (Prince Eugene – From Outsider to posts in the Austrian diplomatic service, including in Europe’s Genius) 2014, Die Zersplitterte Welt – was von the cabinet of then foreign minister Dr , in der Globalisierung bleibt (The Shattered World – What the Oce of International Law and at the Austrian Remains of Globalisation) 2013, as well as Testosteron embassies in Paris and . Macht Politik (Testosterone Power Politics) 2012.

Since 1998 Karin Kneissl has worked as an Karin Kneissl was co-founder and vice president of independent lecturer in the areas of international law, Whistleblowing Austria and is vice president of the Middle Eastern history and the energy market at Society for Politico-Strategic Studies, STRATEG. She various universities, including the University of was involved in local politics in her home community Vienna; the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna; the of Seibersdorf and plays an active role in numerous European Business School in the Rheingau, Germany; non-prot organisations in Austria and Lebanon. the International Centre for Human Sciences in Byblos, Lebanon; Saint-Joseph University in Beirut; as Karin Kneissl speaks various foreign languages: Arabic, well as at the Austrian Armed Forces National Defence English, French, Hebrew (basic), Italian, Hungarian Academy, Vienna and Theresian Military Academy in (basic) and Spanish.

会 場： 京都大学 吉田キャンパス本部構内 総合研究8号館（地図上59番） 2F 講義室2 Venue: Kyoto University | Main Campus | Research Bldg No 8 (#59 below) 2nd oor lecture room 2

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