She worked at the embassies in Rome and Paris, headed the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome (2007-2011) and was Ambassador to Jordan (co-accreditation in Iraq, 2011-2015).

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna, she worked in the areas of EU and press relations, among others. From 2018 to July 2020, she was Deputy and Interim Director General for EU Affairs at the Federal Chancellery. From August 2020 to July 2024 she served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons).

As of 24 September 2024, she is the Ambassador of the Republic of Austria in Hungary.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?

I arrived in Hungary at the beginning of August - from my previous position as Austrian Ambassador to the Netherlands.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?

Yes. Before my posting in the Netherlands, I served in Jordan, Italy (twice), France and Cape Verde.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?

As an Austrian with a great uncle of Hungarian descent, nothing yet.

4. Friends are in Budapest for the weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?

Buda Castle, Fisherman's Bastion, Saint Stephen's Basilica, Aquincum Museum, the Gellért Baths and a Danube cruise.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?

Not enough space here to mention all these wonderful dishes!

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?

Yogurt

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?

Optimizmus.

8. What do you miss most from home? 

Nothing so far.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?

Landscape gardener.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?

I am a lousy driver...

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?

In Austria

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?

In Hungary
 

13. Apart from temptation what can't you resist?

Reading

14. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?

Sports

15. Red or white?

Red

16. Books or films?

Books

17. Morning person or night person?

Morning person

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?

Climate change and women's rights.

19. Buda or Pest?

Too early to say.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?

"Everything that grew took its time in growing and everything that was destroyed took a long time to be forgotten." - Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March