Patrick Ager worked as ECSA Secretary General from 2010–2014. Prior, Ager served in the Austrian Foreign Ministry on EU budgetary affairs and as Research Fellow at the Parliamentary Assemble of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He holds a post-graduate MA in UK, EU and US Copyright Law from the Centre of European Law, King’s College London and a MA in Political Science from the University of Vienna. Currently, Mr.Ager is directing manager of the design forum in Salzburg.