Philipp Marxgut has been Secretary General at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna since December 2015. From July 2007 to June 2015, he was accredited as Austria’s Attaché for Science & Technology in Washington D.C. to both the USA and Canada. He served at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology from 2005 to 2007 in the Directorate for Innovation, where he mainly dealt with European and International R&D Policy. Prior to that, he worked in the Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe and the European Commission in Brussels, was a Research Assistant at the University of Innsbruck and an Intern in the Office of the Austrian Foreign Trade Commissioner in Casablanca.

Philipp studied law and political science at the University of Innsbruck and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, earned a Master at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and complemented his studies with courses in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Moscow.