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= Michael Dóczy =

Michael Dóczy is a European diplomat of Austrian nationality with 25 years of work experience in the field of EU affairs and external relations. He worked in senior positions in the Foreign Ministry of Austria, the EU’ diplomatic service (European External Actions Service), in the cabinet of the European Commissioner for the European Neighbourhood and Enlargement negotiations and in the Policy Unit of the General Secretariat of the Council. Since September 2020, he is the Ambassador of the European Union in Bolivia.

Biography
Michael Dóczy started to work in 1998 in the EU directorate of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt). In 2000, he joined the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002 he served at the Austrian embassy in Madrid and in 2003 he joined the Austrian Representation of the EU in Brussels. There, he was Deputy Representative of Austria in the Political and Security Committee of the European Union, a representative in the Political-Military Group, and in the EU-NATO Capability Group. Under the Austrian EU Presidency of 2006, he assumed the chairmanship of these two groups.

In 2007 he joined the Policy Unit of the General Secretariat of the Council as senior advisor to its Director. He was the first Austrian diplomat to join the newly founded European External Action Service in January 2011 where took over the position of chief-of-staff of the then Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Helga Schmid, until 2015. During this period he was also a member of the EU delegation to the negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program.

Between 2015 and 2017 he was Deputy Director and director designate for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.

From 2017 to 2019 he held the position of senior advisor to the Cabinet of European Commissioner for the European Neighbourhood and Enlargement negotiations, Johannes Hahn. At that time, Dóczy was in charge of the European Union's reform program for Ukraine and a member of the negotiations with Switzerland on the Institutional Framework Agreement.

Since September 2020, he is serving as Ambassador of the European Union in Bolivia. The European Union has in Bolivia its biggest cooperation program (priorities: 1. environment, climate change, and inclusive economic development 2. Governance and human rights).

Personal life
Dóczy is married and has one son.