As part of the MCI Alumni & Friends lecture series, the Entrepreneurial School® was delighted to welcome Karoline Edtstadler, Federal Minister of Austria for the EU and the Constitution, as a digital guest.
In January 2020, Karoline Edtstadler was sworn in as Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution in the Federal Chancellery by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.
Karoline Edtstadler was born in Salzburg on March 28, 1981. From 1999 to 2004, she studied law (Mag.iur.) at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
From 2008 to 2011, she worked as a judge at the Salzburg Regional Court and from 2011 to 2014 as a judge assigned to the Federal Ministry of Justice. Karoline Edtstadler then worked as a consultant in the cabinet of the Federal Minister of Justice, Wolfgang Brandstetter, until 2016. In 2016, she was seconded to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg as an expert (2016 to 2017). From 2017 to May 2019, she was State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior during the Kurz I government. Edtstadler was then a Member of the European Parliament and Head of Delegation of the Austrian People's Party from July 2019 to January 2020. On January 7, 2020, Karoline Edtstadler was initially sworn in as Minister of the Chancellery without a portfolio. She has been Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution in the Federal Chancellery since 29 January 2020.
Karoline Edtstadler has been Vice President of SPORTUNION Austria since 2018 and is a volunteer in the Austrian Workers' Association (ÖAAB). She is also a former contact person for the Equal Treatment Commissioner, first at the Salzburg Regional Court and later at the Federal Ministry of Justice, as well as a former member of the board of the "Fundamental Rights" section of the Association of Austrian Judges.
