2016 - present Director General of International Centre for Migration Policy Development;
2015 - present Manager at Spindelegger Consulting GmbH;
2011 - 2014 Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and Federal Minister of Finance (Dec 2013-Sep 2014);
2008 - 2013 Federal Minister of European and International Affairs for the Federal Government of the Republic of Austria;
2006 - 2008 Second President of the National Council of the Austrian Parliament;
1996 - 2006 Member of the National Council of the Austrian Parliament;
1995 - 1996 Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group);
1993 - 1994 Member of the National Council of the Austrian Parliament;
1993 - 1994 Assistant within the Secretariat of the Board of Directors of the former Austrian
Bank “GiroCredit”; Vienna, Austria
1992 - 1993 Member of the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament;
1991 - 1993 Trainee at the Federation of Austrian Industrialists;
1987 - 1990 Staff member of the Cabinet of the Minister of Defense;
1984 - 1987 Civil servant of Land Lower Austria at Headquarters & County Councils of Gmünd and Baden; Gmünd/Baden, Austria
1983 - 1984 Assistant to Judges at the Penalty Courts of Vienna;
1982 - 1983 Assistant lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the University of Vienna.