Dr. Michael Reiterer, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein

Michael Reiterer received a doctorate in law from the University of Innsbruck in 1978. He also holds diplomas in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center (Italy) and the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva. Reiterer was lecturer at several Austrian universities and he is adjunct professor for international politics at the University of Innsbruck. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer at international conferences, among others the World Economic Forum in Davos. Reiterer has realised about 90 publications.

His political career started in 1990 when he became Counsellor for economic affairs at the Austrian Permanent Mission to the GATT in Geneva. From 1992 to 1997, Reiterer was Deputy Director General at the Department for European Integration and Trade Policy at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna. He then became Minister-Counsellor for industrial and commercial affairs at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels, and at the same time Counsellor of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

From 1998 to 2002, Reiterer was Counsellor of the Asia-Europe Meeting for the European Commission at the Directorate-General External Relations in Brussels. He became Minister and Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan in Tokyo in 2002, representing the European Commission in Japan and reporting on political, economic and social developments. In 2007, Michael Reiterer was elected Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein.