Team

Beate WINKLER

Subjects: integration and discrimination, intercultural and interfaith dialogue, creativity and innovation with a special focus on youth

Beate Winkler works as adviser in BEPA since mid 2007. Before she was Director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) in Vienna from 1998 - when this independent Agency of the EU was set up - until the end of its mandate on 28 February 2007. Following the decision of the Council of the European Union in December 2006, the mandate of the EUMC was extended to become the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) March 2007 and she has been elected as Interim Director.

Beate Winkler worked over 14 years for the Commissioner for Foreigner Issues of the Federal German Government before she became Managing Director of an association of Architects in 1996, organised the International Year for Handicapped People in 1981 and started her professional life in 1978 in the ministry of education and science.

In the course of her career, she has gained experience in such fields as politics, management, media, science, culture, education, the building up of networks and interdisciplinary co-operation at the national, European and international levels, including Council of Europe, OSCE and United Nations - working continuously in the field of migration, integration and inter-cultural dialogue for more than 25 years and presenting the results to international conferences and the media.

Holding a Doctorate in Law Beate Winkler has published widely on inter-cultural issues in magazines, specialist literature, and weeklies ("Die Zeit") and is also editor of a number of books on the topics of migration, integration, intercultural dialogue and xenophobia.