Walter Gehr was born in 1962 in Vienna, Austria. After having lived nine years in France, he made his secondary studies at the
Lycée Français de Vienne.
In 1985 he finished his law studies at the University of Vienna. After his military service and several functions in the private sector, he started a diplomatic career with the
Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Austria.
Since 1997 he is deputy director of the department of general
international law of the
Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
heads within this department the unit responsible for international economic and environmental law.
Walter Gehr is President of the Assembly of States of the International Development Law Institute (
IDLI ). In 2000 and 2001 he was member of the Austrian delegation to the Legal Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations (
Sixth Committee).
Publications :
" The Reform of the
Conference one Disarmament " -
UNIDIR Newsletter N°1,1992 (with W. Lang);
" Convention on the chemical weapons and the international law " - Annuaire Français de Droit International, 1992 (with W. Lang);
" Das diplomatische Schutzrecht " (" diplomatic protection ") in Voelker- und Europarecht in der aktuellen Diskussion (Akten of the 23. Österreichischen Völkerrechtstages);
"La question de la responsabilité exclusive - la réponse de l'Autriche (The issue of exclusive liability - the Austrian answer) in
Nuclear Energy Agency (2000), Reform of Civil Nuclear Liability,Budapest Symposium 1999.
