Federal Minister Dr. Claudia Schmied - Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Claudia Schmied was born on 10 May 1959 in Vienna.

She obtained her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 1983.She started her professional career as a corporate account manager in the Innovative Finance Department of Investkredit in 1983. Subsequently, she became Head of the Corporate Finance Department in 1995. In 1997 she took the position of economic-policy advisor in the Office of the Federal Minister and the State Secretary of Finance, before she returned to the Investkredit in 2000. Since July 2004 she has been a Member of the Executive Board of Kommunalkredit Austria and of Dexia Kommunalkredit Bank since 2005; she also served on the supervisory boards of several companies.

Moreover, Claudia Schmied was a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, her research priority was “The Role of the Economy in Literature“.

Experience and acknowledgment she got also in cultural institutions as member of the Kuratorium of the Salzburg Festival, member of the supervisory board of the ARTfor ART Theaterservice and member of the executive board of the Association Wiener Symphoniker.

Dr. Claudia Schmied is chairman of the Association for Society and Economic Science (VGW) and member of the executive board of the BSA (Federation of social-democratic university graduates) of which she was vice-president from 2002 to 2004.

Since 11 January 2007 Dr. Claudia Schmied is Federal Minister for Education, Arts and Culture.

Geändert am 27.02.2007