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Prof. Dr. Manfred Matzka

Senior Expert Counsel at LANSKY, GANZGER, GOETH & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH

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Prof. Dr. Manfred Matzka, retired head of the Federal Chancellery, is Of Counsel at the international law firm LANSKY, GANZGER, GOETH + partner (LGP) and advises on public administration issues. From 1999 to 2016, he was the highest administrative official in Austrian civil service. Manfred Matzka was responsible for h.r., law, e-government, administrative reform projects, coordination as well as for interdepartmental projects, but also for protocol and state decorations and the supervision of state owned companies. The doctor of law looks back on a long career in public service, which began in 1980 in the Constitutional Service of the Federal Chancellery and then continued in the Ministry of the Interior. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of Bundestheater-Holding, Vice President of Austrian Standards and teaches on several Universities. During the Bierlein government, he was personal advisor to the Federal Chancellor. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur.). 

Job description: Senior Expert Counsel at LANSKY, GANZGER, GOETH & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH
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  • 1970 – 1975 University of Vienna, law studies
  • Since 2015 Chair of the Supervisory Board of Bundestheater Holding GmbH
  • Since 2012 Vice President of Austrian Standards
  • 2010 – 2016 Vice President of the BVA
  • 2005 – 2005 interm head of the arts section of the Federal Chancellery
  • 2000 – 2015 deputy chairman of the Economic Council of Statistics Austria
  • 1999 – 2015 Director General of the Federal Chancellery
  • 1993 – 1999 Head of the Passport, Aliens, Asylum and Border Control Section at the Ministry of the Interior
  • 1989 – 1993 Head of Cabinet of the BMI
  • 1987 – 1989 Legal Affairs Adviser to the Federal Minister of Health and Civil Service
  • 1980 – 1987 head of unit at the Constitutional Service of the Federal Chancellery
  • 1975 – 1980 assistant professor at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna
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