Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger

Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, PhD, has served as Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York since September 2022. She is an Austrian career diplomat. Before assuming her position at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, she was Deputy Director of the Diplomatische Akademie Wien / Vienna School of International Studies and Head of its Executive Training Department, as well as Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Paris. She also served at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York, where she focused inter alia on the protection of human rights and gender equality.