Emil Brix


Emil Brix is an Austrian diplomat and historian.

Life and career

He studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of Austria. From 1984 to 1986, he was a secretary of the Austrian People's Party, and from 1986 to 1989, he worked in the office of the federal minister for science and research, Hans Tuppy.
From 1990 to 1995, he was the consul general in Kraków, and from 1995 to 1999, he was the manager of the Austrian Institute for Culture in London. Until early 2010, he was the director of the politico-cultural section of the foreign office. Between April 2010 and January 2015, Brix was the Austrian ambassador in London. On 19 January 2015, he assumed office as the Austrian ambassador in Moscow.
Brix is also the representative chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. He became the director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 2017.

Awards

On 26 January 2009, Brix was awarded the golden medal Gloria Artis by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, at the galleries of the International Culture Centre in Kraków. This medal is the highest award in Poland for people who rendered outstanding service to Polish culture in an artistic way or for the preservation of Polish cultural heritage.

List of publications