Christian Lettmayr, Deputy Director of Cedefop since April 2005, was born 1951 in Austria.
He has a master’s degree in business administration and economics from the Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien and a master’s degree in vocational and technical education from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
From 1985 until 2001 he was Deputy Director and - from 1994 - Director of the Austrian Institute for Small Business Research (now: KMUforschung Austria) in Vienna. In 2001 he took up an assignment with the European Commission, DG Enterprise, contributing to the benchmarking of enterprise policies and competitiveness analysis.
Mr Lettmayr has a background in socio-economic research and the management of research institutions. Through policy-oriented research and participation in various advisory groups he has contributed to the design and implementation of policies. As an entrepreneur, lecturer and member of various professional commissions he has hands-on experience of vocational training, the design of training courses and continuing education.