Alfred EBENBAUER (Team Leader) Austria Alfred Ebenbauer served for three terms as rector and one as pro rector at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is currently president of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service and the Viennese Eco-Social Forum, and a member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Society. He has been named honorary senator of the University of Vienna, and served as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Dr. Ebenbauer holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Tirana, Albania and a Ph.D. in German and history from the University of Vienna. He is an alumnus of many of the Salzburg Seminar's Universities Project and Russian Higher Education Project symposia and has participated in several consultant visits by Visiting Advisors Program teams to the Russian Federation and Caucasus.