Dr. Margaretha Mazura
Secretary General

Margaretha Mazura is an Austrian national, born in Vienna. She graduated from the University of Vienna as a Doctor in Law and holds a Diploma of Advanced European Studies of the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Her professional career started with practice at the courts, followed by a period as in-house lawyer and lobbyist for a pharmaceutical company in Vienna. She became an independent consultant for European Affairs in Brussels in 1994.

Since 1999, Dr. Mazura has been Deputy Secretary General of the European Multimedia Forum, where she specializes in content-technology partnerships, business expansion inside and outside of Europe and European funding programmes.

She acts as administrative and technical co-ordinator in European projects, represented the EMF at international business events (Europe, USA, Latin America and Asia), and is invited at international workshops to present European funding opportunities and best practice cases of localization and business expansion. She has been the spiritus rector of the LEXELERATOR platform that stems from the EU supported LEKTOR project of which she is currently the technical co-ordinator.

Since 1999, she is a listed expert for the European Commission and was called upon for project evaluations and reviews in programmes as different as ICT (IST), LLP (eLearning, Minerva, Lingua), eContent, eTEN and GROWTH.

From 2002 to 2006, she was elected second Vice-President of Termnet, the international network of terminology. Margaretha Mazura has a profound knowledge of Latin America through her stays in different countries of the continent. Furthermore, she is a free—lance writer and organizer of cultural events.

Margaretha Mazura supports actively the Fischer Children's hospital in Czernowitz, Ukraina through running and up-dating its website: www.ubique.org/Czernowitz
and engages in art historic studies in a niche of our cultural heritage: www.ubique.org/Webfans