Alexander Wrabetz has been – and will remain until the end of this year – the Director General of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation since 2007, where he had served as its Commercial Director since 1998. Wrabetz, who holds a PhD in Law, is also a member of the Executive Board of the EBU and currently the Chairman of the Steering Committee Prix Europa. He began his professional career in the banking sector in 1987, at the Girogentrale and at Bank der Österreichischen Sparkassen AG, and then changed to the Austrian Industry Administration AG (ÖIAG), where he was appointed Secretary General in 1990. After 1992, Wrabetz was the Managing Director of steel and technology group Voest Alpine Intertrading GmbH, and in 1995, he went on to become a Member of the Board of international healthcare provider VAMED.