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 an Assistant Professor & Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, Vera was Marie Curie REWIRE Fellow at the University of Vienna and Principal Investigator of the project “Expert Knowledge in Times of Crisis”. Vera worked in research,...
Alexander Kmentt is an Austrian career diplomat currently serving as Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations and Specialised Agencies in Geneva. A leading figure in nuclear disarmament, he is one of the architects of the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons initiative and...
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...