Boards

The OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation was founded in 1961 by the Rectors' Conference and the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) as an association named “ÖAD – Austrian Foreign Students Service”. It was renamed “Austrian Academic Exchange Service” in 1990 and “Austrian Exchange Service – Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research” in 2000. In 2021 the name was changed to “OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation”.

Until 2008 the OeAD was an association. The OeAD-GmbH was established on 1 January 2009 by the “OeAD-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Establishment Act” (in short: OeAD Act) (Federal Law Gazette I No. 99/2008).

The OeAD is 100 per cent owned by the Republic of Austria. The owner representative is the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Legal information system of the Austrian Federal Government: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20005873

The OeAD’s aim as Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation is to carry out measures relating to European and international cooperation in science and research as well as fostering the arts, higher education, education, and training. For more information see Legal Mandate

The Milestones show the OeAD’s most important stages in the context of European and Austrian developments that influenced us between 1961 and 2022.

The OeAD’s boards:

Supervisory Board

  1. Chairperson: SC Mag. Elmar Pichl
  2. Deputy Chairperson: Mag. Hanspeter Huber
  3. MMag. Bernhard Mazegger
  4. Ambassador Dr. Dr. Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
  5. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
  6. Mag. Kurt Koleznik
  7. Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Beatrix Karl
  8. SC Bernadett Humer, MSc
  9. Members of the employee representation:
    Mag. Franz Salchenegger
    MMag. Julia Lichtkoppler-Moser
    Mag. Christina Düss
    Mag. Bernhard Muzik

Strategy Advisory Board

SC Mag. Barbara Weitgruber M.A. (Chicago)
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

Mag. Jürgen Schick
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

Vice-rector Mag. Berta Leeb
Private University of Education Linz

Dr. Peter Schlögl
öibf (Österreichisches Institut für Berufsbildungsforschung)

Ao.Univ. Prof. Dr. Sylvia Hahn
University of Salzburg

Mag. Joachim Heinzl
Wirtschafts-Standort Vorarlberg GmbH (WISTO)

SC Mag. Elmar Pichl
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research