Chair

Mr. Alexander Marschik (Austria)

Mr. Alexander Marschik is currently serving as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in New York.

Before his latest appointment, Mr. Marschik was Director General for Bilateral Affairs, European Union Common Foreign Policy and Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria since 2018. He previously served as Director General for International Affairs and Political Director from 2015 to 2018 and as Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union, in Brussels, from 2011 to 2015. 

From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Marschik served as the Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non Proliferation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He chaired Subsidiary Body 1 (disarmament) at the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Deputy Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations. 

Over his three decades in government service, Mr. Marschik has held such positions as Legal and Political Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York from 1999 to 2003. He was Head of the General Affairs Council Unit in the European Union Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 1999 and First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in Geneva in 1997.

Mr. Marschik holds master’s and doctoral degrees in law from the University of Vienna and postgraduate degrees from Sorbonne University in France, the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands and the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Italy.

2019

Megayla Ulana Austin

Guyana

2018

Nirmal Raj Kafle

Nepal

2017

Lewis G. Brown

Liberia

2016

Katalin Annamária Bogyay

Hungary

2015

Marcelo Eliseo Scappini Ricciardi

Paraguay

2014

Yotam Goren

Israel

2013

Chamithri Jayanika Rambukwella

Sri Lanka

2012

Carolina Popovici

Republic of Moldova (the)

2011

Woinshet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

Ethiopia

2010

Claudia Corti

Argentina

2009

Barbara Kaudel

Austria

2008

Patrick A. Chuasoto

Philippines (the)

2007

Yury G. Yaroshevich

Belarus

2006

Nonye Udo

Nigeria

2005

Diego Simancas

Mexico

2004

Enno Drofenik

Austria

2003

Mohammad Tal

Jordan

2002

Andrius Namavicius

Lithuania

2001

Abdelmalek Bouheddou

Algeria

2000

Valeria María González Posse

Argentina

1999

Peter Van De Velde

Belgium

1998

Kohji F. X. Yamagiwa

Japan

1997

Uldis Blukis

Latvia

1996

El Hassane Zahid

Morocco

1995

Fernando Varela

Chile

1994

Maria Rotheiser

Austria

1993

Mahmoud Barimani

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

1992

Imre Karbuczky

Hungary

1991

Kwaku Dua Dankwa

Ghana

1990

Jaime Bazan

Chile

1989

Franziska Friessnigg

Austria

1988

Bernards A. N. Mudho

Kenya