Andreas Stadler is a leading Austrian diplomat, curator, writer, lecturer, political scientist. He is the Austrian Ambassador to Poland residing in Warsaw. Before was the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 he returned to Vienna to work at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Deputy Ambassador of Austria at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He was also appointed Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Applied Arts to teach Cultural Diplomacy and international arts relations. Andreas Stadler studied political science at the University of Vienna in Austria, and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Deputy Ambassador in Zagreb, Croatia and from 1999 to 2004 he was the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, Poland. After leaving Warsaw in 2004 he became the advisor for science, arts and culture to the President of the Republic of Austria and held the position until 2007, when he was appointed director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.