Civil servant expert on Interoperability and Digital Administration, after 20 years providing digital solutions to private and public sectors from international IT companies. She is leading the national coordinator's team for the Single Digital Gateway, member of the Expert Group of Interoperability of Public Services and the Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization, and an active participant of the SEMIC community and several national and European projects and initiatives for the digital transformation of the public sector.

• 2019-present : European Commissioner for Budget and Administration
• 2014-2019 : European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations
• 2010-2014 : European Commissioner for Regional Policy
• 2007-2010 : Minister for Science and Research
• 2003-2007 : Member of the Vienna regional government
• 1997-2003 : Board member, later CEO of Novomatic AG
• 1996-2003 : Member of the Vienna regional parliament
• 1992-1997 : Executive Director of the Austrian's People Party
• 1989-1992 : Managerial functions in different areas of Austrian industry
• 1987-1989 : Secretary General of the Austrian Managers Association
• 1987: Doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna
  
  

Sebastian Hallensleben is the Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 where European AI standards to underpin EU regulation are being developed, a member of the Expert Advisory Board of the EU StandICT programme and Chair of the Trusted Information working group. He co-chairs AI risk and accountability in OECD ONE.AI and has roles in AI committees in the Council of Europe and UNESCO. Sebastian Hallensleben heads Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence at VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies. He focusses in particular on AI ethics, on handling the impact of generative AI, building privacy-preserving trust infrastructures as well as characterising AI quality.