Ambassador Andreas Rendl to Deliver Keynote Address at the IPSA-Concordia Summer Institute in Applied Diplomacy

IPSA is pleased to announce that H.E. Andreas Rendl, Ambassador of Austria to Canada, will deliver the keynote address at the opening reception of the 2025 IPSA-Concordia Summer Institute in Applied Diplomacy. The keynote address, titled Diplomacy in the digital age – still needed?, will be held on 18 August 2025 at 16:15 at Concordia University’s Political Science Department in Montréal. The event will be followed by a cocktail reception at 17:30. 

• Date: Monday, 18 August 2025
• Keynote address:16:15
• Venue: Concordia University, Political Science Department
• Address: Hall Building, Room 1220 - 12th Floor, 1455 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal

This event is free to attend, but online registration is required. Click below to register and secure your spot. 

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Andreas Rendl has been serving as the Ambassador of Austria to Canada since September 2024. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of the Department for the Americas at the Ministry for European and International Affairs from 2021 to 2024, following his role as Deputy Director of the Department for the Middle East from 2019 to 2021. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Ambassador of Austria to Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador, and from 2010 to 2014, he was Ambassador to Cuba.

He was European Correspondent at the Ministry for European and International Affairs in 2010, Head of the West Africa Unit from 2008 to 2010, and served in the Cabinet of the State Secretary at the Ministry for Finance from 2007 to 2008. He also worked in the Office of the Second President of the National Council (2005–2006).

From 2001 to 2005, Ambassador Rendl worked with the Parliamentary Administration. Between 1993 and 2001, he held various positions at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, including the Balkans Desk, the Office for International Law, the Press and Information Department, as Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, as Deputy European Correspondent, and as Deputy Head of Mission to NATO in Brussels.