The Society was refounded in Vienna in 2009 by Kurt Tiroch and ever since supports the development of the bilateral relationship on cultural, economic and political topics.

[1] Prominent guest speakers from politics have included, amongst others, the former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, British Minister for Europe David Lidington, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and the British Member of Parliament (SNP) Angus Robertson (see picture).

Speakers in the field of diplomacy have included former state secretary and diplomat Hans Winkler and the Austrian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Emil Brix.

Representatives from business have included the Governor of Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank Ewald Nowotny, OMV CFO David Davies, and BP's global head of human resources, Helmut Schuster.

Tiroch, a former manager of the British energy company BP, rallied a group of like-minded people and forged the first plans on how to organise the Society anew.