Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber

Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
Born	(1956-02-04) February 4, 1956 (age 61) Linz, Austria
Nationality	Austria
Fields	International Relations, Diplomacy, self-determination
Institutions	Princeton University; Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD); [Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]
Alma mater	Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber (born February 4, 1956) is the Founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University and has been teaching on issues of state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics since 1988. He is also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, LCM, a private diplomacy forum.

Danspeckgruber was educated at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and the University of Vienna, Austria, (D.Laws); and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (Ph.D) where he studied under the supervision of Curt Gasteyger, and worked closely with Dusan Sidjanski at the University of Geneva.

Following his Austrian military service (First Lieutenant, Reserve), he served as Special Assistant to the Commander of the Austrian National Defense Academy. Danspeckgruber was a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and held research fellowships at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University - Recipient of Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship <https://www.fwf.ac.at/de/wissenschaft-konkret/im-fokus-schroedinger/karrieren/wolfgang-franz-danspeckgruber> - and at Princeton's Center of International Studies where he worked closely with Robert Gilpin.