Born:

June 7, 1963 in Vienna as Monika Ebenhöh

  Education:

• 8 years Secondary School in Vienna, Matura 1981.
• 2 years European Secretarial Academy in Vienna, Diploma in 1983.
• 6 years of study in landscape ecology and landscape planning at the University of Agriculture in Vienna, Diploma in 1992.
• 2 years of study in landscape architecture at the University of Georgia, School of Environmental Design, Master's degree in 2000.

  Skills:

• German as first language, fluent in English and French, some Spanish
• MS Word and Excel, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Netscape Composer, AutoCAD

  Work Experience:

• Officer of the Vienna City Council, Department of Road Construction and Administration (December 1993 - August 1998).
•  Landscape architect at Zoo Schoenbrunn in Vienna (April - September 1993)
• Assistant to the two administrative executives of the Austrian Regional Planning Conference from December 1992 to February 1993.
• Consulted for an architect about the design of the outdoor exhibit for big cats in 1992.
• Free-lanced with the Institute of Landscape Planning at the Technical University in Vienna in summer 1990 and 1991 and 1992.

Secretary with landscape architects in summer 1988 and 1989, a trading company in summer 1987, Raiffeisen Zentralbank AG from 1983 to 1986 and IBM-Austria in summer 1982.