General Meeting and Keynote IHS

The club's biennial General Meeting for 2022-2023 was held at Deloitte on 12 March 2024.

The meeting started with a warm welcome and opening by Secretary General Georg Krauchenberg and Deputy Secretary General Herbert Kovar, who hosted the meeting in the premises of Deloitte. After the treasurer's and the auditor's reports the business focused on the re-election of the temporary absent CdH president (at the time located in his home country) as well as of the CdH board, who all stood for re-election and were unanimously re-elected.

For the functional period 2022 to 2023 there had been a number of very fruitful events: General Secretary Georg Krauchenberg gave an overview of the various visits to well-known Austrian companies and other hidden champions such as research institutes and universities. The highlight of the period was the club's celebration of  it's 50th anniversary in September 2022 together with it's members and representatives of Austria's economic, commercial, and socio-political landscape at the Austrian Economic Chamber's headquarters.

Please find more information about our past events in the chronicle-section of our website.

The Club for Trade Delegates serves as a contact platform between accredited trade and economic delegates and the Austrian business and political community. The club offers its members a closer and personal contact to Austrian companies and institutions. Renowned experts give their views on the state of the Austrian as well as the Regional economy and outlook, thus offering an additional value to the economic representatives of foreign embassies and official institutions. At the same time it is promoting additional business contacts for the Austrian side through the numerous visits being organized by the Club.

The presentation of the activities of CdH were followed by the positive reports of the treasurer and the consistent discharge of the Board. The next activity was the reelection of the President as well as the reelection/election of the Board Members. The list of the current Board Members can be seen on our website under the section "Board". The Association Authority was informed accordingly.

The GA ended with a keynote speach by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Holger Bonin, Scientific Director of IHS, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna on "Austria facing transformative change: Into the future without a plan?" It is still a very timely question.