Hans Peter Manz is the inspector general of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and former ambassador of Austria to the US. Before, he served as Austrian ambassador to Switzerland for more than four years. Ambassador Manz is a career diplomat who joined the Austrian foreign service in 1979. Between 1981 and 1987, he served at the Austrian Embassies in Bern and Tehran. After a spell on the Eastern European desk in Vienna and another tour in Bern, he became deputy chief of Mission at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York in 1994. In 1999, he moved back to the Foreign Ministry in Vienna. From 2000 to 2007, he was the diplomatic advisor to the Austrian Federal Chancellor. He received a doctorate of law from the University of Vienna in 1977.