Presidential Council

The Presidential Council of the Austrian Standards International is the main specialized consultative body of the Association.

The consultations primarily relate to economic policy and strategic issues as well as relevant specialized topics, future developments as well as changes in the environment and their potential impact on the Association’s field of activities.

The Presidential Council set up a committee on technical specifications and building regulations, a committee on consumer protection and a committee on research, innovation and standardisation.

 

Members presidential council

Clemens Martin Auer

Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

Brigitte Bach

Managing Director of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Peter Bauer

Professor of structural design at the TU Wien

Othmar Berner

Member of the Federal Trade Organization of Roofers, Glaziers and Tinsmiths

Eva Czernohorszky

Head of Technology Services of the Vienna Business Agency (VBA)

Peter Diatel

Chairman Technical Committee of the Austrian Industrial Gases Association (ÖIGV)

Arno Ebner

Head of Division III – Consumer Policy of the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection

Eva Maria Eichinger-Vill

Managing Director, partner at VILL ZT

Urs Fischer

CEO, Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV)

Werner Fischer

Head of Standardization & Regulation Management, Siemens AG Austria

Susanne Formanek

Managing director of GrünstattGrau Forschungs- und Innovations GmbH

Ludovit Garzik

Managing Director, Austrian Council for Research, Science, Innovation and Technology Development

Michael Grübl

Head of Research & Delivery Business at Hutchison Drei Austria

Stefan Haas

CEO of TÜV AUSTRIA

Martin Haidvogl

Presidential Council member

Stefan Harasek

President of the Austrian Patent Office

Michael Heiss

Principal Consultant for Digital Enterprise, Siemens AG Österreich

Gregor Herzog

Presidential Council member

Gerhard Hrebicek

Founder and president of the European Brand Institute

Günter Idinger

Managing director of Eaton Industries Austria

Brigitte Jank

President of the Austrian Sports Federation for the Disabled (ÖBSV)

Bernhard Jarolim

Head of the competence centre for construction research, building regulations, engineering services and standards at the Chief Executive Office of the City of Vienna

Reinhard Kainz

Director of the Trade and Crafts Section of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Karoline Meschnigg

Head of Directorate I/B as well as the Department of Part-time Vocational Schools and Pre-Vocational Schools of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

Rainer Mikulits

Managing Director of Österreichischen Instituts für Bautechnik (OIB)

Christoph Mondl

Managing Director of Quality Austria Ltd.

Andreas Mörk

Director of the Industrial Section of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Alexander Petsche

Lawyer and partner in the law firm Baker & McKenzie

Alexander Poledna

Head of Intellectual Property Rights, Standards & Journals, Corporate Research (SF), Voestalpine Stahl GmbH

Heinz Polsterer

Heinz Polsterer ist Leiter des Bereichs Standardisierung, IPR-Management und Open Source Compliance im Technologiebereich der Deutschen Telekom.

Andreas Reichhardt

Head of Division III - Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism

Jean-Marie Reiff

Director of the Luxembourg Institute of Standardization, Accreditation, Security and Product and Service Quality

Helmut Richter

Plastics technology and environmental engineering at the Testing Centre of Technologisches Gewerbemuseum (TGM)

Maria Mercedes Ritschl

Legal policy expert at the Federation of Austrian Industry

Andreas Schmidt

President of Austrolab

Walter Schwartz

Attorney-at-law and senior partner of the law firm SHMP Schwartz Huber-Medek Pallitsch Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Christian R. Schweiger

Specialist for medical and chemical laboratory diagnostics, Vienna General Hospital/Medical University Campus

Sabine Seidler

Professor of TU Wien

Sonja Sheikh

managing director of Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR)

Gottfried W. Sommer

political secretary for ÖGB Stabstelle ÖBAG

Regina Sommer

Professor habilitated in water and food hygiene at the Medical University of Vienna

Roland Sommer

Managing director of the association "Industry 4.0 Austria - The Platform for Smart Production"

Walter Steinacker

Provincial Construction Director at the Office of the Provincial Government of Lower Austria

Martin Ewald Steinhäufl

Managing director of Schlosserei Martin Steinhäufl

Mark Topal-Gökceli

Head of Rail System Engineering and Operations department of ÖBB Holding AG

Bogdan Topić

President of SIST, the Slovenian Institute for Standardization

Sonja Wiesholzer

Managing Director Schiene OÖ GmbH

Lothar Wiltschek

Lawyer

Christoph Winterhalter

Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)

Klaus Wittig

Head of Safety Testing Centre of the Austrian Workers' Compensation Board (AUVA) 

Markus Wolf

Department of International Youth and Family Policy, Federal Ministry of Labour, Family and Youth