Dorothea Gros (former Kipperman), is Head of Sales Operations Austria at Atos IT Solutions and Services GmbH. Before that, she was VP of Business Development CEE for Public & Health at ATOS. From 2007-2015, she worked as Head of Business Development and Legal Counsel at the law firm Lansky, Ganzger + partner. She has also been Secretary General of the Austrian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and Secretary General of ataz. She graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and holds a Law and Economics degree from the University of Birmingham (UK). Since January 2018, she has been again elected as Secretary General of ataz.

Dr. Barbara Kolm is president of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute and founder and director of the Austrian Economics Center (AEC) and the international conference series Free Market Road Show. She holds senior management roles in the private sector and NGOs and deals intensively with efficiency, financing and legitimization issues of government institutions, infrastructure delivery and public administration. She makes economic analyses and expertises in the areas of public finance, budget and structural reforms; she also teaches at University.

Günter Dörflinger worked as a journalist and later as an advisor at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. Thereafter he became member of the Styrian “Landtag” (legislative assembly). For seven years he was member of the Styrian Government, responsible for Youth, Health and Hospitals. In 2003 he became CEO of the “Energie Steiermark AG”, division “Gas and Heating”, in 2009 managing director of Christof Holding AG. Since 2015 Günter Dörflinger is COO of Christof Industries GmbH..

Gabriel Lansky is a Managing Partner with the international law firm Lansky, Ganzger + partner. He has more than 30 years of experience in corporate and criminal law, and represents the Azerbaijani government before the European Court for Human Rights in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.