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 engagements in private industry (1990), at the Provincial Court of Linz, and at a law firm (1990-1991), he moved in public service. 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. Since 2013 he is a member of the Subsidiarity Expert Group of the Committee of the Regions. Since September 2015 he is Foreign Policy Adviser to the Chairman of the Working Group Western Balkans for the 6th CoR term-of-office.
Currently, Klemens H. 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, he followed an invitation of the University of Cologne as adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Foreign Policy. In 2010, he qualified as university lecturer with an unchanged venia legendi at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Alongside his teaching assignment at the University of Cologne, Klemens H. Fischer is guest 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, London. He is vice president (International Relations and Research) at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for State Organization and Administrative Reform at the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Since 2014, he is Member of the Advisory Board of the Austrian Institute for European Legal Policy in Salzburg and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Negotiation Academy Potsdam.
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.
Since 1st Term 2017/2018, Fischer is Professorial Lecturer for Geopolitics at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna.
Publications
Fischer has published numerous books and articles on various issues in the field of European and International Law and International Relations and Lobbying. Inter alia, he published 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 most recent publications deal with
(i) Geostrategy, Intermediate Europe and MENA,(ii) Dezentralization, the Rule of Law, Multilevel Governance, (iii) 9/11 and the Consequences on the EU anti-terror policy, (iv) Regulatory Policy within the EU Treaties, (v) 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)

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