Thomas Hajnoczi is a retired Austrian career diplomat who served as Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and as Security Policy Director in the Foreign Ministry. Abroad he led the Austrian Permanent Mission to the UN (including the Conference on Disarmament) in Geneva and...
Vera Axyonova is Marie Curie REWIRE Fellow at the University of Vienna and Principal Investigator of the project “Expert Knowledge in Times of Crisis”. Previously, Vera worked in research, science management and policy consulting, including as the Managing Director of “Academics in...
Alexander Kmentt is an Austrian career diplomat and served as President of the 1st Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022, alongside his role as Director of Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation at the Austrian Ministry of...
Wolfgang Petritsch was the EU's Special Envoy for Kosovo (1998-1999), EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris (1999), and then High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002). He served as the Austrian ambassador to the UN in Geneva (2002-2008) and to...