- Ernst Florian Winter
Ernst Florian Winter (
16 December 1923 inVienna ) is an Austrian-American historian and political scientist.He was married withJohanna von Trapp (1919-1994), one of theTrapp Family Singers, from 1948 to 1994. They had seven children; three sons (one decased) and four daughters.Ernst Florian Winter has enjoyed three distinct and distinctive careers:
*an academic career
*a diplomatic career and
*a career as a world renowned consultant.After immigrating to USA in 1938, because of the German-
Nazi occupation inAustria , Dr.Winter attendedColumbia University where he obtained his M.A. in political science and his P.h.D in Government and International Law atIona College in New York followed by an Assistant Professorship atColumbia University and a position as Guest Professor atthe Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy atPrinceton University .In 1961, Austria beckoned, and he accepted the function of Chairman of the Ost-Institute and Professor of International and Communist Affairs in
Salzburg . In 1964, Winter became Director and Professor of theDiplomatic Academy of Vienna , a position he still holds, while also teaching at the Ford Foundation’s post-graduate Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and at the InternationalUniversity of Vienna .A man of many talents including fluency in German, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, etc, Winters diplomatic career encompasses positions such as:
*Director of the Department of Application of Social Sciences of
UNESCO in Paris from 1968 to 1970
*American Negotiator in thePeople’s Republic of China form 1968 to 1972,
*Member of the team invited by the late Prime MinisterChou En-lai as the first American guest of the Chinese People’s *Institute of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and the Head of twoUN specialized agencies missions to China,
*UNEP -FAO (1974) and
*UNEP-WHO (1975).As a consultant, Winter founded and directed the transnational Research Center for Political Ecology,
Environmental Law andAlternative Environmental Technologies in Austria from 1970 to 1978. At the same time, he worked as Senior Consultant for UNEP inKenya , and was a founding member of the Resources and Industries Associates Group in charge of RIA’s work in agriculture and environmental technologies inNew York andVancouver .Since 1992, Winter has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of
Clean Technologies , and from 1989 to 1994 he also worked as Senior Industrial Development Officer forUNIDO in Vienna.On 3rd May 2008 he was hounered with the
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award by the City ofBraunau am Inn .At the moment he is active in the UN environmental programm "Agriculture in the
kosovo ".External links
* C.V. of Ernst Florian Winter [http://www.hrb.at/bzt/doc/zgt/b16/ernstflorianwinter.htm]
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