Martin Reichard currently works for the Austrian Mission to NATO, dealing with Civil Emergency Planning, South East Europe, Trust Funds, and EU-NATO relations, among others. At the Austrian Foreign Ministry in Vienna, he was NATO desk officer and, briefly, worked in the Austrian OSCE delegation. Previously an academic at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany) he has written on legal aspects of European defence, as well as international environmental law.