Institut für Öffentliches Recht und Politikwissenschaft in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien, dem Institut für Amerikanistik und dem Club Alpbach Steiermark
Begrüßung: Rektor ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Polaschek
Eröffnung: ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Poier, Politikwissenschaft
Moderation: ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, Amerikanistik
Ambassador Traina has a long history building innovative companies from the ground up. Prior to his appointment as America’s representative to Austria in 2018, Ambassador Traina was a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist based in San Francisco (founder of CompareNet, Inc.; chairman of StepUp Commerce; founder of Schema Logic; co-founder of DriverSide, a venture-funded startup in the online automotive space; in 2011 he founded Traina Interactive, which operates the unique life experiences provider, IfOnly.com).
Ambassador Traina earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a special diploma in social studies from Saint Catherine’s College at Oxford in the United Kingdom. He received a master’s degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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