Siegfried Beer

Siegfried Beer, Chairman of the Board, is professor for late modern and contemporary history (ret.) at the University of Graz. In 2004 he founded the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (ACIPSS) whose semi-annual Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS) he edited until 2018. He has held guest professorships at Columbia University (2007), Harvard University (1996/7) and at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1992). His main areas of teaching and research are international relations, Anglo-American cultures and intelligence history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his major publications are: Der “unmoralische” Anschluss (1988); Der Krieg aus der Luft (1992); Die britische Steiermark 1945-1955 (1995) and Public Power in Europe (2006). He also serves on several national and international commissions.