Elisabeth Freytag-Rigler Present Position: Head of Unit for EU-affairs in the Austrian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management
Professional Experience Record:
09/1986 – 09/1988 Assistant Export Manager in an Austrian company producing crystal glass
since 09/1988 Austrian Ministry for Environment, Youth and Family
09/1988 – 08/1990 International Department
since 08/1990 Head of the Department for EU-Affairs
09/1993 – 02/1994 Environment Attaché, Austrian Mission to the EU – especially in charge of accession negotiations
07/1995 – 08/1996 maternity leave
09/1996 – 08/1997 PHARE long-term expert, Hungarian Ministry for Environment and Regional Development, Budapest
Since 09/1997 EU-coordination, preparations for and coordination of the Austrian EU-Presidencies 1998 and 2006 in the fields of environment and youth; EU-enlargement, integration of environment and sustainable development into other policies
Founding member and co-chair of the European Sustainable Development Network, ESDN
since 09/2014 Chairwoman of the Management board of the European Environment Agency
Publications: inter alia: Fischer/Freytag (Hg): Österreich und das Umweltrecht der Europäischen Union, Wien 1995 (Ueberreuther Verlag)
Hinterberger/Pirgmaier/Freytag/Schuster: Growth in Transition, Vienna 2012 (Earthscan)