Gerald Hinteregger (Austria)
UNECE Executive Secretary
from 1987 to 1993
Gerald Hintereger received
a Bachelor of Arts in international studies
from the University of Mississippi, USA
in 1951, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy
from the University of Graz, Austria, and
finally a Doctor of Law from the University
of Vienna, Austria. He joined the Foreign
Service in 1957. From 1965 to 1970 he was
Embassy Secretary at the Austrian Embassy
in Washington, and from 1970 to 1975 Head
of the Cabinet of the Austrian Minister
of Foreign Affairs. In 1975 he was named
Austrian Ambassador to Spain, a post he
held until 1978, when he became Austrian
Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1981
he was recalled to Vienna, and became Secretary-General
for Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative
of Austria to the United Nations, a post
he held in Vienna for the next six years.