Born in Salzburg in 1961. Law studies in Salzburg, Vienna and London (London School of Economics). After working with the Salzburg Provincial Government (National Park Hohe Tauern), the European Federation for Nature and National Parks (Germany) joined the Parliamentary Club of the Liberale Forum as political consultant. Adviser to the party head in questions of law and constitution, afterwards office manager at the European Parliament, later at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Presidency of the OSCE - Balkan Desk, the same position also with Foreign Minister Dr. Ferrero-Waldner, (now EU Commissioner) followed by a year in Kosovo as deputy head of the Democratisation Department of the OSCE, finally three years partner in a Public Affairs Agency in Vienna and since October 2004 owner and CEO of "The CSR Company", a consultancy specialised on Corporate Social Responsibility.

He is Task Group Leader within ISO (International Standards Organisation) for the writing of the ISO 26 000 standard on Social Responsibility to be published beginning of 2009. He is Chairman of the Austrian standardization committee 251 "CSR" in the Austrian Standardization Institute (ON), co-author of the CSR guide of the Standardization Institute, which in the meantime has been translated into eight languages. He is co-publisher of the first book on CSR in German.

He holds classes at the Advanced Technical College for European Economy and Management at the University of Vienna and is guest lecturer at the University Eichstatt/Germany.

He also represents the St. Gallen Management Institute (Switzerland) in Austria and Eastern Europe and is lecturer and coach at CEO level.

As consultant he has worked for companies and organisations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, India, Serbia, Azerbeidjan, Mongolia, Ukraine plus many more

For the GPA (trade union) he created the "Responsible Manager of the Year" award, which was presented for the first time in Parliament in 2005 and is presented yearly by the president of the Austrian Parliament together with Mr. Neureiter