Andrea Kaufmann

Currently, she is an economist with a diploma working on her doctoral studies in political science at the University of Innsbruck.

Before turning into the country's politics, Kaufmann was active as a councilor for culture, family and education in her hometown.

She subsequently held the departments of culture, science and the promotion of studies, further education, archives, and librarianship as well as music schools.

[1] On 20 May 2011, Kaufmann was selected as deputy in Innsbruck by former ÖVP Federal Party chairman Michael Spindelegger.

In May 2013, she resigned as a provincial minister in order to be the first woman to become the mayor of her home town of Dornbirn.