Erhard Busek
Erhard Busek has more than 35 years of political and governmental
experience in his native Austria and involvement in European organisations.
Currently, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for
Southeastern Europe and Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative
Initiative (SECI), Dr. Busek earlier held a series of senior national
and municipal positions in Austria between 1978 and 1995. Vice Chancellor
of Austria for four years beginning 1991, he also held the ministerial
portfolio for Education (1994-95) and was before that the Minister for
Science and Research since 1989 .
Dr. Busek was initially elected to parliament in 1975, the
same year he was appointed Secretary General of the Austrian People's
Party. The following year he entered municipal politics and in 1978 became
Deputy-Mayor of Vienna, a position he held for nine years.
Dr. Busek's professional career began in 1964 as a legal
adviser to the Association of Parliamentarians of the Austrian People's
Party. He then served as Secretary General of the Austrian Federation
for Trade and Commerce (1968-75).
Parallel to his political career Dr. Busek ran a publishing
firm specialising in economic matters (1968-75) and is currently the editor
of the monthly 'Wiener Journal'. He is also Chairman of the 'Institute
for the Danube Region and Central Europe' and a member of an EU group
on 'Education' under the chair of Edith Cresson.
Dr. Busek is the author of several books published between
1968 and 1997 and has had numerous other articles and papers published
elsewhere. He is an Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Krakow, Bratislava
and Czernowitz. He is a visiting professor at Duke University, NC, USA
and the University of Agriculture, Vienna. He received a law degree from
the University of Vienna in 1963
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