Christoph GRABENWARTER
DDr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Grabenwarter
born in 1966 in Bruck an der Mur
| since 2005 | Member of the Constitutional Court |
| 2018–2020 | Vice-President of the Constitutional Court |
| since 2020 | President of the Constitutional Court |
Education
| until 1984 | Schooling in Graz |
| 1988 | Magister iuris, University of Vienna |
| 1989 | Magister rerum socialium oeconomicarumque, University of Vienna |
| 1991 | Doctor iuris, University of Vienna |
| 1994 | Doctor rerum socialium oeconomicarumque, University of Vienna |
| 1994–1995 | Research scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Corporate Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg |
| 1997 | Habilitation in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Comparative Public Law at the University of Vienna |
Employment History
| 1988–1997 | Assistant at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna (Prof. Günther Winkler) |
| 1991 | Secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights, Strasbourg |
| 1997–1999 | Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 1999–2002 | Full professor (C4) of Public Law at the University of Bonn |
| 2002–2008 | Full professor of Public Law at the Karl-Franzens University Graz |
| since 2008 | Full professor of Public Law, Commercial Law and International Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business |
Other Functions
| since 2006 | Member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2015–2017 Vice-President; since 2023 Chair of the Sub Commission on Constitutional justice) |
| 2014–2020 | Member and Chair (2019–2020) of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights |
| since 2022 | Honorary professor at the Eötvös-Lorand-University in Budapest |
Board member of the Austrian Lawyers’ Association (Österreichischer Juristentag) (2015–2022 President; since 2022 Member of the Executive Committee)