currently serves as President of Europa Institut – a Public Policy Think Tank, located in Austria. He lectures internationally on economics, tax policy, the welfare state, catholic social teaching, Christian anthropology – in short anything related to economics and ethics.

Today he is a Private Equity Investor and Financial Advisor, focussing on capital markets, new technologies and real estate.

He served as Director for Private Wealth Management for Russia and Eastern Europe at Deutsche Bank Austria AG for 15 years and before that as a Project Manager – M&A in CEE for Raiffeisen Investment AG and Procurator at Raiffeisen Investment Ukraine. He was the Federal Chairman of the Young European Studentinitiative (JES) and PanEuropa Austria Youth Movement.

In the 90s he worked in the US at The Leadership Institute and the US Congress. He holds a Master in Economics and Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and studied also in Toulon (France).