Andrea Mayer
 Andrea Mayer    (lawyer) | |
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| Born | Andrea Mayer April 19, 1962 |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Interests | Rudolf Scholten |
A former staff member for Bilderberg Steering committee member Rudolf Scholten. Attended Bilderberg 2017 as cabinet director of the Presidential Chancellery. | |
Andrea Mayer (during her marriage, Andrea Ecker), is an Austrian politician and former cabinet director of the Presidential Chancellery.
A former staff member for Bilderberg Steering committee member Rudolf Scholten, she attended the 2018 Bilderberg.
Career
Born in Amstetten, Lower Austria, Mayer studied German and history as well as jurisprudence at the University of Vienna and graduated with the academic degree Magistra. She then worked in the private sector for a few years. In 1993 she became a member of the staff of Education and Culture Minister Rudolf Scholten. She later moved to the Ministry of Science, where she was responsible for innovation and research. In 2007, she was appointed Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied appointed as head of the art section. In 2015, following an advertisement, she prevailed against 17 applicants for the management of the now merged Art and Culture Section and was appointed to this position by Chancellery Minister Josef Ostermayer. She took on control functions in various supervisory bodies of large cultural institutions, such as the Salzburg Festival, and in 2016 she was interim head of the Belvedere Board of Trustees.
In February 2017, she was appointed, the first woman in this position, by Alexander Van der Bellen as head of cabinet in the presidential office.[1]
In May 2020, several Austrian media saw her as the favorite to succeed Ulrike Lunacek in the State Secretariat for Art and Culture.[2][3][4]
She was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport by the Federal Executive of the Greens on May 18, 2020, and sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen on May 20, 2020.The same day, she announced that she had suspended her membership of the Social Democratic Party. She does not intend to become a member of the Greens.[5]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2018 | 7 June 2018 | 10 June 2018 | Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. |
References
- ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000053326416/andrea-ecker-ambitionierte-beamtin-fuer-den-praesidenten
- ↑ https://www.kleinezeitung.at/kultur/5814404/
- ↑ https://orf.at/stories/3165874/
- ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000117524889/wer-wird-es-duenne-personaldecke-fuer-lunacek-nachfolge
- ↑ https://orf.at/stories/3166542/
