Senior Advisory Board
The Senior Advisory Board comprises long-standing former members of the Bruno Kreisky Forum's board.
Vice-President of the Austrian National Bank (retired), positions in various federal ministries, Austrian banks
Max Kothbauer
Chief of Staff to Bruno Kreisky (1980-1982), Minister for Transport (1984-1986) and Minister for Finance (1986-1995) ret. of the Republic of Austria, Founding member of the Bruno Kreisky Forum
Ferdinand Lacina
Diplomat in repose, Vice-President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum until March 2026
Eva Nowotny
Economist, President of the Austrian Institute for European Policy
Ewald Nowotny
Founding member of the Bruno Kreisky Forum
Werner Obermayer
Assistant and closest colleague of Bruno Kreisky (1965-1990), first Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum from 1991-2005
Margit Schmidt
Scientific Advisory Board
Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Chairman of the Academic Council, House of European History, Brussels
Oliver Rathkolb
Head and Professor at the Centre for South-East European Studies at the University of Graz
Florian Bieber
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna
Lucile Dreidemy
Private Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna
Oliver Gruber
Head of the Kreisky and Dohnal Archives
Maria Mesner
Chairperson a.D. of the European Research Council
Helga Nowotny
Head of the Institute for Ecological Economics and Director of the Competence Centre for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility at WU Vienna
Sigrid Stagl
Head of the BMBF Junior Research Group REXKLIMA (Right-wing extremism versus climate protection?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden
Manes Weisskircher
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies (Diskursforschung), Lancaster University (UK) and Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna
Ruth Wodak
Professor emeritus at TU Wien (died 5 July 2024)
Arnold Schmidt
