Thomas Mayr-Harting has been the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process since 2020. He was Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia in the European External Action Service from 2015 to 2019. Before that, he served i.a. as EU Head of the Delegation to the UN in New York, Permanent Representative of Austria to the UN, Political Director of the Austrian MFA, Austrian Ambassador to NATO, and Personal Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans.