Klemens Fischer

Klemens H. Fischer (born 1964 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian EU diplomat and Professor for International Relations.

Early life

Fischer attended primary and grammar school in Linz, Austria, where he passed his final examinations with a-equiv. After his officer’s training in the Austrian Army, he read law and management at Johannes Kepler University of Linz and obtained his PhD (doctorate) degree in International Law in July 1989.

Career

After working in private industry, at the Provincial Court of Linz, and at a law firm, he moved in public service in 1991. In 1992, he passed the postgraduate course at the European Academy Vienna. In 1993, he was transferred to the Austrian Mission to the European Communities in Brussels as member of the negotiation team for Austria’s EC accession. After the successful finalisation of the negotiations, he moved to the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union, which is described as "Austria's 'embassy' at the EU".

In 1997 he participated in the United States International Visitor Program. In the course of his posting at the Austrian EU Embassy, Klemens H. Fischer took part in the Intergovernmental Conferences on the adaptation of the EU treaties (among those the Treaty of Nice, Constitutional Treaty, Treaty of Lisbon). Since 2005 he is the Austrian focal point for the EU High Level Governance Process and, in 2011, he took over the Chair of the Steering Group/EU High Level Governance Process.

As of 2019, Fischer is Minister plenipotentiary and Head of Department at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union.

Research

Parallel to his professional engagement, Klemens H. Fischer is involved in scientific research and took over his first teaching assignment in 1997 at the Institute for Media and Communication at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2001 he was invited as Lowder Visiting Executive in the Auburn University College of Business.

From 1997 to 2010 he held a teaching assignment at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Siegen, Germany, where he qualified as university lecturer in June 2006 with a venia legendi for International Relations. From 1999 to 2004, he was lecturer for EU Business Government Relations at the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto.

In 2008, joined the University of Cologne as adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow and in 2010, he qualified as university lecturer at the University. Alongside his teaching assignment at the University of Cologne, Fischer is a uest lecturer at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT,Germany), the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA), and at the Institute for Management and Technological Training (POHTO), Finland. His main fields of research are EU and international law, EU foreign and security policy, international foreign and security policy, and business-government-relations. Fischer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, Cologne University, honored Fischer with the Junior Teaching Award 2015 for his seminar "Foreign Politics - Comparative Foreign and Security Policy: EU - USA - Russia - China" in November 2015.

In July 2016, Fischer was appointed Professor by the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, Cologne University. Fischer is Professorial Lecturer for Geopolitics at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna.

Publications

Fischer has published books and articles on various issues in the field of European and International Law and International Relations and Lobbying, including the commentaries on the Treaty of Nice, the Convent on the Future of Europe, the EU Constitutional Treaty, the development of EU Law, and most recently on the Treaty of Lisbon, as well as books on EU Lobbying. His recent publications deal with topics including decentralization, the Rule of Law, EU anti-terror policy, and new ways for participatory democracy in the EU.

Honors

• 2006: Medal for extraordinary Merits for Bavaria in a United Europe
• 2008: Order of the Tyrolean Eagle in Gold
• 2014: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Officer’s Cross)

External links

• Homepage of Klemens H. Fischer
• Technical University Berlin
• Auburn University College of Business
• European School of Management and Technology
• Institute for Management and Technological Training (POHTO/ Finland)
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)
• Institute for State Organization and Administrative Reform
• Austrian Institute for European Legal Policy
• Negotiation Academy Potsdam
• EU-Whoiswho
• Institute for International and Foreign Policy of the University of Cologne
• Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy
• Institut für Staatsorganisation und Verwaltungsreform
• Negotiation Academy Potsdam
• Austrian Institute for European Legal Policy
• Jean-Monnet-Lecture on the Austrian EU Co-ordination, University of Innsbruck, 2015

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