The Advisory Board of Webster University, Vienna was formed to serve as counselors for the Director in conducting university business in Austria. The Vienna campus, like the other European campuses, is governed by the Board of Trustees of Webster University St. Louis and the Vienna Board acts in an advisory capacity. The Board has put its wholehearted support behind the Development efforts at Webster Vienna as with every other aspect of the university’s establishment and growth here. The members are:

Executive Committee

• Prof. Thomas Hintze, Managing Director, UPC Austria (Committee Chairman)

Regular Members

• H.E. William C. Eacho, III, U.S. Ambassador to Austria
• Mag. Michael Edelsbrunner, Country Executive, Citibank International PLC Austria Branch
• Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Hamp, Managing Director, Opel Wien GmbH
• Dr. Patricia A. Helletzgruber, External Relations, Peter Drucker Society Austria
• Ing. Rudolf Kemler, General Manager, Hewlett Packard GmbH
• Kai Langner, General Manager Austria, Kodak GmbH
• Norbert Lessing, General Manager, Hilton Austria
• Friederike Mautner Markhof, Mautner Markhof AG
• Gernot Mittendorfer, Member of the Managing Board, Erste Group Bank AG, Wien
• Prof Dipl.Ing. Mag. Friedrich Rödler, Country Managing Partner, PWC PriceWaterhouseCoopers GmbH
• Dr. Walter Schoen, CEO, Schoen Aerospace GmbH
• Felix Thun-Hohenstein, Managing Director Austria & Switzerland, 3M Österreich GmbH
• Dr. Matthias Wechner, Managing Director, G4S Security Services AG 
• Dipl.-Ing. Martin Winkler, Country Manager Austria, ORACLE

Emeritus Members

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bode, Former Gen.Manager,Glaxo Smith Kline GmbH; President of Pharma/Austria
• Dr. Elizabeth Chopin, Former Director of Webster University Vienna
• Theresa Firestone, Former Managing Director, Pfizer Corporation Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.
• Lydia Goutas, MBA, Managing Partner of Lehner Executive Partners
• Dipl. Ing. Edwin Kiefer, Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, OPEL Austria  
• Dr. Raoul Kneucker, Former Sektionschef at the Ministry for Education
• Dr. Kurt Komarek, Former Rektor of the University of Vienna
• Ing. Mag. Hans Lukits, Managing Director, BEWAG
• Mag. Dr. Emil Mezgolits MA, Webster Class ‘82
• Dr. Franz Markus Nestl, Senior Partner, GNBZ Graff Nestl Baurecht Rechtsanwälte
• Dr. Richard A. Paulson, General Manager CEE, Amgen GmbH
• Dr. Horst Pirker, CEO, Styria Media Group AG
• Dr. Gerhard Puttner, CEO, Dr. Puttner Communications
• Hugh Ripps, Director Global Systems Mgmt. Center, Coca-Cola Company  
• The Honorable Kathryn Walt Hall, Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria  
• David Waller, Deputy Director General Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)