In 2010, the Diplomatische Akademie Wien started a new initiative to honour its most distinguished alumni. Each year, DA graduates from all over the world are inducted to the DA Alumni Hall of Fame.
Yet, the Alumni Hall of Fame is way more than just a plaque on the wall. It is DA’s goal to congratulate its alumni on their outstandingly interesting and successful careers as well as to show our students and young alumni what they, too, can achieve after graduating from the Academy.
In addition, the Academy and club.da are happy to organise talks and panel discussions with Hall of Fame members on a regular basis:
- 1st Hall of Fame Talk: Celso L.N. Amorim (Brazilian Minister of External Relations)
- 2nd Hall of Fame Talk: Georgios D. Poukamissas (Greek Ambassador to Bucharest)
- 3rd Hall of Fame Talk: Michael Reinprecht (Head of Unit at the European Parliament)
- 4th Hall of Fame Talk: Peter Moser (Austrian Ambassador to Washington, D.C. and Tokyo)
- 5th Hall of Fame Talk: Wendelin Ettmayer (Austrian Ambassador to Helsinki and Ottawa; Austrian Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; Austrian Member of Parliament)
- 6th Hall of Fame Talk: Wendelin Ettmayer (see above) and Gabriele Matzner (Austrian Ambassador to Bratislava, Tunis and London; Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Academy)
- 7th Hall of Fame Talk: Wendelin Ettmayer (see above)
- 8th Hall of Fame Talk: Keynote by Wendelin Ettmayer (see above) and a panel discussion on the Ukraine crisis (Gallery)
- 9th Hall of Fame Talk: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (President of the Republic of Croatia, former Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy of NATO)
- 10th Hall of Fame Talk: Keynote by Wendelin Ettmayer (see above) and a panel discussion on globalisation (Gallery)
- 11th Hall of Fame Talk: Keynote by Wendelin Ettmayer (see above) and a panel discussion on "War and Peace"
- 12th Hall of Fame Talk: Keynote by Wendelin Ettmayer (see above) and a panel discussion on "Transatlantic Relations"