2014: H.E. Mr. Martin Sajdik (Austria)

2014-president

His Excellency Martin Sajdik was elected seventieth President of the Economic and Social Council on 14 January 2014 for a term of office beginning on the date of election and expiring when his successor was elected, which took place at the beginning of the new cycle of the Council starting in July 2015. (See report of the Economic and Social Council for 2014 and the report of the Economic and Social Council for 2015 for reference.) Ambassador Sajdik was the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in New York.

Biography

Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in New York, presented his credentials on 4 January 2012. Prior to his appointment to New York, he served as Austria’s ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. From 2003 until 2007, Ambassador Sajdik was Director General for Economic Affairs and European Integration. Between postings at the Austrian Embassy in Moscow (1980-1985 and 1989-1991) and with the Executive Secretariat of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna (1986-1987), he held executive positions at a major Austrian construction company and an Austrian Bank in Moscow. Earlier in his career, he served at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Ambassador Sajdik studied law, international law and international relations in Vienna, Moscow and Bologna, and received his doctorate degree in law in Vienna in 1971. He is the author of several books on the “enlargement process of the EU”, published in Austria, Germany, USA and most recently in China.

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