Professional and political activities Since December 2021 Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria 2020-2021 Federal Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria 2018 – 2020 Spokesperson for Integration and Migration of the new People’s Party Group in the Austrian Parliament 2018 – 2020 Secretary General of the new People‘s Party 2017 – 2020 Member of the Austrian National Council Since 2017 District Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party for Vienna’s Hietzing district 2016 – 2018 Secretary General of the ÖAAB (the Austrian Workers’ and Employees’ Association) Since 2016 Regional Chairman of the Vienna section of the ÖAAB 2015 – 2016 Deputy Secretary General of the ÖAAB 2013 – 2015 Head of the Austrian People’s Party’s Municipal Affairs Department in Lower Austria 2009 – 2013 Managing Director of Academy 2.1 2008 – 2009 Head of Training and Networking at the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s Party 2007 – 2008 Head of the Austrian People’s Party’s Service and Mobilisation Department Since 1999 Strategic communication, public speaking and communication skills coach 1993 – 1996 Professional soldier, completed extended compulsory service (one year on a voluntary basis) and subsequently continued to serve in the Austrian Armed Forces Education 2012 – 2014 University studies Political Communication (MSc), Danube University Krems 1999 Training as communication coach at the Managementinstitut der Industrie on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna 1992 Extended compulsory military service (one year on a voluntary basis), subsequently training as infantry officer and information officer Until 1992 Upper secondary education Gymnasium Amerlingstrasse, humanistic branch, in Vienna’s sixth district