Founding and Honorary President, former Federal Chancellor.
Franz Vranitzky
President, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Vienna Festival, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI), former Federal Minister.
Rudolf Scholten
Retired Ambassador, Vice-President
Eva Nowotny
Kassier, retired ambassador, former Austrian Special Representative for Africa (died in September 2025)
Georg Lennkh
Deputy Treasurer, former Deputy Mayor of Vienna.
Renate Brauner
Secretary, Partner at the Innovation in Politics Institute
Helfried Carl
Deputy Secretary, former Secretary-General of the Kreisky Forum
Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo
Advisory boards
Secretary General
Sabine Kroissenbrunner
Vice-Chancellor of the City of Vienna’s Private University of Music and the Arts (MUK)
Andreas Mailath Pokorny
Economist, Federal Minister for Finance
Markus Marterbauer
President of the Austrian Institute for International Politics (OIIP)
Wolfgang Petritsch
university professor
Barbara Prainsack
First President of the Vienna State Parliament (until June 2025)
