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Karin Kneissl
Karin Kneissl (born 18 January 1965) is an Austrian diplomat, journalist, and politician. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2017 and 2019. Prior to assuming her government position, she was a lecturer.
Kneissl has advocated for closer relations with Russia and has a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since 2021 she has been a member of the board at Rosneft. She has lived in Russia since 2023.
Born in Vienna, Kneissl spent part of her childhood in Amman, where her father worked as a pilot for King Hussein of Jordan and also was involved in developing Royal Jordanian Airlines. In her youth and student days Kneissl also was active in Amnesty International and supported environmental and human rights organizations worldwide.
Kneissl studied law and Oriental languages at the University of Vienna between 1983 and 1987. After graduating, she studied International relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Jordan in Amman. Subsequently, she spent a year as a Fulbright fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. In 1992 she graduated from the École nationale d'administration.
In addition to German, Kneissl has claimed to work in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. She also claims basic knowledge of Hebrew, Hungarian, and Italian.
In 1990 she joined Austria's Foreign Office. From 1990 to 1998 she worked in the cabinet of ÖVP foreign minister Alois Mock, in the International Law Office, and was posted abroad in Paris and Madrid.
She has claimed that she was among the co-founders of the Austrian section of Médecins Sans Frontières in 1992/93, however the claim has been denied by the organization which has no record of her involvement.
She left the diplomatic service in the fall of 1998, and lived in Seibersdorf near Vienna, where she was active between 2005 and 2010 as an independent local councilor on the list of ÖVP. Kneissl also worked as a freelance journalist for German and English-language print media and as a political analyst for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. She authored several specialized and non-fiction books.
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Karin Kneissl
Karin Kneissl (born 18 January 1965) is an Austrian diplomat, journalist, and politician. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2017 and 2019. Prior to assuming her government position, she was a lecturer.
Kneissl has advocated for closer relations with Russia and has a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since 2021 she has been a member of the board at Rosneft. She has lived in Russia since 2023.
Born in Vienna, Kneissl spent part of her childhood in Amman, where her father worked as a pilot for King Hussein of Jordan and also was involved in developing Royal Jordanian Airlines. In her youth and student days Kneissl also was active in Amnesty International and supported environmental and human rights organizations worldwide.
Kneissl studied law and Oriental languages at the University of Vienna between 1983 and 1987. After graduating, she studied International relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Jordan in Amman. Subsequently, she spent a year as a Fulbright fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. In 1992 she graduated from the École nationale d'administration.
In addition to German, Kneissl has claimed to work in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. She also claims basic knowledge of Hebrew, Hungarian, and Italian.
In 1990 she joined Austria's Foreign Office. From 1990 to 1998 she worked in the cabinet of ÖVP foreign minister Alois Mock, in the International Law Office, and was posted abroad in Paris and Madrid.
She has claimed that she was among the co-founders of the Austrian section of Médecins Sans Frontières in 1992/93, however the claim has been denied by the organization which has no record of her involvement.
She left the diplomatic service in the fall of 1998, and lived in Seibersdorf near Vienna, where she was active between 2005 and 2010 as an independent local councilor on the list of ÖVP. Kneissl also worked as a freelance journalist for German and English-language print media and as a political analyst for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. She authored several specialized and non-fiction books.
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