Helgard Fröhlich has been Programme Director of CIFE since 2003. She has a degree in History (1977) and received her PhD (1980) as well as the “facultas docendi” (1985) from the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
She is specialised in European history and was Assistant Chairperson/Assistant Professor for Modern History at the Humboldt-University Berlin from 1980 to 1996.
From 1997 onwards she worked for the European Movement Germany, since 1999 as its Deputy General Secretary.
Since 1991 she has worked regularly as lecturer at the University of Vienna, Department of History.