I am the Co-Founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network and the Executive Director at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. My interests are at the intersection of diplomacy, arts, technology, and the environment.

I served for two years as Austria's first Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley. During more than five years as Head of Open Austria and Austrian Consul in San Francisco, I shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, engaged in transatlantic digital diplomacy and digital human rights. I also developed digital humanism as a strategic focus of Austrian foreign policy. I initiated Open Austria's "Art + Tech Lab", and co-founded the European art + tech + policy initiative "The Grid".