Honored Persons

 

Eric Frey

Eric Frey was born in Vienna in 1963, the son of Jewish parents who escaped National Socialism by flight. He studied International Relations at Princeton University. Frey became a journalist. From 1986 to 1990, Frey was reporter and Office Manager of AP-Dow's Jones News Service in Frankfurt. In 1991 he moved to the Viennese daily "Der Standard". During this time, in 1993, he wrote his first non-university book - a treatise on Bill Clinton's campaign under consideration of Arthur M. Schlesinger's cycle theory. At the "Standard", he became head of foreign affairs in 1996. In 1998 he moved to the economic department. Since 2002, Frey is one of the chiefs of service as well as economic commentator. After 2000, Frey began a doctoral degree in political science in Vienna. His dissertation was written in 2003/2004 in New Orleans, where he was Visiting Professor at the Marshall Plan Chair for Austrian Studies at the University of New Orleans from 2001 to 2002. Frey was awarded the Horst Knapp Prize in 2015.