Ines Holzegger
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Ines Holzegger | |
|---|---|
 Holzegger in 2025 | |
| Member of the National Council | |
| Assumed office 6 March 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Beate Meinl-Reisinger |
| Constituency | Vienna |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 June 1993 Vienna, Austria |
| Party | NEOS |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna (M.Phil.) Tallinn University of Technology (MA) |
Ines Holzegger (born 3 June 1993) is an Austrian politician of the party NEOS. In March 2024, she was elected president of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), and since March 2025 she has been a member of the National Council of Austria, succeeding Beate Meinl-Reisinger, who joined the Stocker government as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Ines Holzegger grew up in Kronstorf and attended secondary school in Enns.[1] From 2011 she studied teacher training in history, English, civics and political education at the University of Vienna, graduating in 2017 as Master of Philosophy with a thesis on Exclusion, Politics and Censorship: Influences on the Representation of African Americans in Hollywood Films of the 1930s to 1950s.[2]
In 2021 she completed the joint international master’s program Public Sector Innovation & eGovernance at Tallinn University of Technology, KU Leuven, and WWU Münster, with a thesis titled Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Participation in EU Policymaking.[3]
Professional career
From 2016 to 2018, Holzegger worked as a German as a foreign language teacher, and subsequently taught English and history at high schools in Vienna until August 2019. She completed a traineeship at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s Brussels office in 2020, followed by the Blue Book traineeship at the European Commission in 2021, where she worked in the cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.[4]
Since October 2021, she has been employed at the digital security company A-Trust, where she was appointed Head of Product and Innovation Management in October 2022.[5]