Dr. Hannes Swoboda

Dr. Hannes Swoboda is the President of WIIW – Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, the President of Institute for International Peace (Vienna). He is also leading figure if several other organisations such as the Sir Peter Ustinov Institute, University for Applied Science FH Campus Wien, as well as the Vienna Center for Architecture. From 1972 to 1994, Dr. Swoboda was engaged in Viennese politics for his SPÖ party. From 1996 to 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament where he took part in the work of different Committees: especially for Foreign Affairs, where he was the Vice Chair of Delegation for South East Europe, Rapporteur for Accession of Croatia, Author of different reports for example on Turkey, Russia etc. Dr. Swoboda was a member of delegations for US, Turkey, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Palestine etc. From 1996-2012 he was the Vice-President of S&D Group, and from 2012 to June 2014​, the group’s President.