Peter Jankowitsch is a former Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n diplomat and politician.

He was born in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria. A law graduate, he is a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). From 1983 to 1986, 1987 to 1990 and 1992 to 1993 he was a member of the Nationalrat

National Council of Austria

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, from 1986 to 1987 Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1990 to 1992 he joined the government again as a secretary of state in the Federal Chancellery. From 1993 to 1998 he was Austria's ambassador

Ambassador

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 at the OECD in Paris

Paris

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