Manfred Scheich

Manfred Scheich was Austria’s Ambassador to Algeria from 1974 to 1978. Between 1983 and 1986 he was the country’s Ambassador to the European Communities and from 1987 to 1992 Head of the Section for Integration and Economic Policy at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Austria’s chief negotiator for the EC accession negotiations, Permanent Representative of Austria to the EU from 1995 to 1999 and Austria’s chief negotiator for the Treaty of Amsterdam.