Irene Giner Reichl

Dr Irene Giner-Reichl has been a member of Austria's Senior Foreign Service since 1982. She was Austria's ambassador in Beijing from 2012 to July 2017 and has been ambassador in Brasilia since then.
Giner Reichl is President of the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy and on the board of the international policy network REN21 for the promotion of renewable energy sources.
Her work focuses on sustainable development and global issues, development cooperation, international cooperation on energy and gender.
Irene Giner Reichl is the author of articles and non-fiction books on sustainability, development and spirituality.

1985-1994 Deputy Head of the Information Service NY and Delegate to the Second Committee, ECOSOC, etc. at the United Nations - United Nations
1994-1995 Head of the Department for International Women's Affairs
1995-1998 Head of the Department for International Cooperation, Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Vienna
1998-2001 Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, Vienna
2001-2004 Director; Deputy Director General, UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, New York
2005-2012 Head of the Development Policy and Development Cooperation Section, Foreign Ministry, Vienna
2012-2017 Austrian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia, Beijing
Since 2017 Austrian Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, Brasilia