Adj. Prof. Dr. Klemens H. Fischer, Minister plenipotentiary

AIES Associate Fellow

Born in 1964, Klemens H. Fischer is Minister plenipotentiary and Head of Department at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union.

He is an expert for EU negotiations as he was member of the negotiation team for the Austrian EU accession in 1995, and is a regular member of the Austrian negotiation teams for each Intergovernmental Conference since 2000. Since 2005, he is also the Austrian focal point for the EU High Level Governance Process.

He has studied Law and Management at the Johannes-Kepler-University/Linz/Austria, obtained his PhD (doctorate) degree in International Law in July 1989, and qualified as university lecturer in June 2006 with a venia legendi for International Relations. His main fields of research are (a) International Relations, in particular (i) the relations between the European Union and East Asia with a special focus on Japan, (ii) the EU and the USA, and (b) the development of International Law.

As member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London/ United Kingdom) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Foreign Politics at the University of Cologne, he appears regularly on panel discussions on international relations issues.

He conducts seminars on EU relations as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Foreign Politics at the University of Cologne and as adjunct Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Siegen/Germany. As guest lecturer at the European School for Management and Technology (ESMT/Germany), and at the Institute for Management and Technological Training (POTHO/Finland), he has taught many international executive managers in the fields of Business Government Relations and EU Lobbying issues.

He published numerous books and articles on various issues in the field of European and International Law and International Relations. 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.