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Mr. Kreutner holds a Master’s degree in law from the University of Innsbruck (AUT), and a Master’s degree in Policing and Public Order Studies from the University of Leicester (UK). He was a commissioned (SOF) officer in the armed forces including a total of five years with different international field missions. After his transfer to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (AUT), he was commissioned to build up the Austrian federal anti-corruption authority, which he headed from 2001 to 2010. From 2004 to 2012, he was (founder and) President of the network European Partners Against Corruption and the EU’s European Anti-Corruption Contact Point Network (EPAC/EACN), a platform of the European Anti-Corruption Authorities.

Among his many capacities, he is/was member of, inter alia, INTERPOL’S International Expert Group on Corruption (IGEC), the Legal Symposium Advisory Committee of the European Forum Alpbach, the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA), the Advisory Council of Transparency International – Chapter Austria, and the OMV Resourcefulness Advisory Board. Mr. Kreutner is/was a senior anti-corruption evaluator/peer reviewer/advisor for, inter alia, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Transparency International, and the World Bank; he also is co-editor of the Compliance Praxis magazine. For eight years each, he served as Chairman of the Austrian Supreme Disciplinary Tribunal and Member of the Austrian Federal Appeals Tribunal. Both in 2014 and 2015, Mr. Kreutner was recognized by Ethisphere (USA) as one of 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics for his efforts to combat corruption with IACA, as well as his efforts to improve human welfare worldwide through his work with the United Nations, Transparency International, and other global organizations.