private: Schopenhauerstraße 47/13 , 1180 Wien
office: Mariahilfer Straße 1d/13, 1060 Wien
 
Born: March 2nd, 1941 in Belgrad
Parents: Dr.rer.pol. Herbert Kier
Dr.phil. Paula Kier, geb. Sebian
Citizenship: Austrian
1959 Matura, Bundesrealgymnasium Linz
1960 - 1966 Studies in History, Mathematics, Law and Communication Science at the universities in Marburg a.d. Lahn, BRD, und Wien
1970 Doctor of Law, University of Vienna
1970 - 1972 Court practice, District Court Kitzbühel and District Court Linz
1972 - 1979   Law practice in Linz and in Vienna
1979 - 1983 Assistant to the Board of Managing Directors and Deputy Director of Legal Department of 'Steirische Ferngas GmbH' (now Steirische Gas-Wärme GmbH) in Graz, also responsible for purchase of CNG on the international level (former Soviet Union) and lobbying at the level of the Federal Government of Austria
1983 - 1992 Federal Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of Austria
1983 - 1987
 Chief of Staff of the Federal Minister (also Vice Chancellor), espe-cially responsible for a new setting of energy policy including the state-owned energy companies
1987 - 1992
 Deputy Director, International Energy Board (Section IV), especially responsible for Eastern Europe and the preparation of EU-matters
     
    Member of the supervisory boards of :
  1984 - 1992 Austria Ferngas GmbH, Wien
  1984 - 1988 Österreichische Donaukraftwerke AG, Wien
  1984 - 1989 Österreichisch Bayerische Kraftwerke AG, Simbach/Inn
  1985 - 1989 Donaukraftwerk Jochenstein AG, Passau
   
Since 1988   Managing Director Kier Consulting KG
Since 1992   Consultant and Managing Director, Kier & Partner Management-Consulting GmbH, Vienna
related company kier communication consultants GmbH
     
Since 2005
   Advisor of The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Vienna - Paris - Budapest
Since 2006
   Cooperation with PPV Consulting GmbH
Since 2007
   Cooperation with Pharmatext by kier communication consultants GmbH
Since 2007
   ICCR-Foundation gemeinnützige Privatstiftung, Wien - member of the executive board
Since May 2008
   oekostrom AG für Energieerzeugung und -handel, Wien - deputy chairman of the supervisory board / since May 2010: chairman
Since June 2008
  Cooperation with onetiki new media company GmbH
Since July 2008
   STRABAG AG (Köln) - member of the supervisory board
Since March 2009
   Bau Holding Beteiligungs AG - member of the supervisory board
Since 2009
   Senior Advisor FAS.research (Wien / New York)
Since 2010
  "HumanInvest - Verein zur Förderung nachhaltiger Veranlagungs-, Wirtschafts- und Lebensformen" - member of the advisory board
Since March 2010
  "smart technologies" Management-Beratungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H. - chairman of the advisory board
Since November 2010
  Eine Welt Handel AG (Niklasdorf) - member of the supervisory board (deputy chairman)
     
2000 - 2003
   Head of the local Office at Vienna of RWE Energy AG, Dortmund (former RWE Plus AG, Essen)
2000 - 2003
   KCS Industrie-Holding AG, Vienna - Chairman
2005 - 2007
   ICCR-Foundation gemeinnützige Privatstiftung, Wien - member of the supervisory board
August 2008 - July 2010
  Ed. Züblin AG (Stuttgart) - member of the supervisory board
     
Since 1992   Lecturer at Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Department of Economics, since 2003 visiting professor, main focus: Energy and Ecology (liberalization, privatization and structures - for example: emission trading)
Since 2002   Member of Presseclub Concordia
     
   
 
     
1986 - 1992   Official representative of LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL (1, Whitehall Place, London, SW1A2HE) at the U.N. offices in Vienna, Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
   
1994 - 1999   Member of the Austrian Parliament - key activities: energy policy, industrial policy and social affairs
1998 - 1999
   Deputy-floor-speaker of Liberales Forum
   
Since 2000   Institut für eine offene Gesellschaft - member of the board
Since 2004   Austrian League for Human Rights - member of the board
Since 2002 Netzwerk "Grundeinkommen und sozialer Zusammenhalt B.I.E.N. Austria" - member
  Verein "Niemals Vergessen" - member of board of trustees
     

 

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