Thomas Peyker has extensive experience in positions related to Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union. He has worked in inspecting and advising on the performance of diplomatic missions of the European Union, known as European Union Delegations. He has held positions in the diplomatic service of Austria in Ex-Yugoslavia, and for EU in Delegations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Dominican Republic, to the African Union in Ethiopia and opened the new EU Delegation in the United Arab Emirates. He was in the Executive Board of the World Food Programme in Rome (WFP) and coordinated the EU’s food aid for Africa. He has managed large scale EU reconstruction and infrastructure cooperation projects and humanitarian aid in the Balkans, in Africa and in the Caribbean, as well as several EU CFSP missions abroad. He was the EU’s legal adviser for CFSP and the EU liaison officer to the UN Department for Peace Keeping Operations (UNDPKO) in New York. He speaks German, English, French and Spanish and is the father of two boys.