Douglas Hoyos
Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff | |
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General-Secretary of NEOS – The New Austria | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 1 August 2021 | |
Preceded by | Nikola Donig |
Member of the National Council | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 9 November 2017 | |
Constituency | Federal list |
President of the JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS | |
In office 2014 – 2 November 2019 | |
Preceded by | Nikolaus Scherak |
Succeeded by | Anna Stürgkh |
Personal details | |
Born | (1990-09-08) 8 September 1990 (age 33) Klagenfurt, Austria |
Political party | NEOS – The New Austria |
Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff[needs IPA] (born 8 September 1990) is an Austrian politician of NEOS – The New Austria. He has served as a member of the National Council since 2017 and general-secretary of NEOS since 2021. Previously, he was president of the party's youth branch, JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS, from 2014 to 2019.[1]
Biography
Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff is a member of the Hoyos family. He studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics from 2010.[2] Before 2017, he worked as a project manager at NEOS and a forestry company.[3]
In 2012, Hoyos was elected as General-Secretary of JuLis – Young Liberals Austria, a liberal youth organisation. He played a leading role in the integration of JuLis as the official youth branch of NEOS. In 2014, he was elected president of JuLis, now renamed as JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS. He left office in 2019.[1]
He was elected to the National Council on the NEOS federal list in the 2017 federal election. In 2021, he was elected general-secretary of NEOS.[4]
References
External links
- Biography, contact details and speeches since 1996 of Douglas Hoyos at the Parliament of Austria (German)
- NEOS, Douglas Hoyos, Biography
- Douglas Hoyos at www.meineabgeordneten.at