Since September 2006, Daniela Koll has been the deputy trade commissioner at the Austrian Trade Commission in Chicago.

Before this appointment, she served for two years in the headquarters of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna, Austria. In 2004 and 2005, Koll was responsible for European Investment for the Mexican Government of Hidalgo, where she worked at the Department of Trade and Industry.

Koll holds a graduate degree in international business administration from the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein/Tyrol, Austria, and participated in foreign language and business administration studies at the Catholic University in Milan, Italy, and at the University of Alicante, Spain.

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