Susanne Raab
Susanne Raab | |
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Raab in 2020 | |
| Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Spindelegger (2016–2025) |
| Federal Minister for Women, Family, Integration and Media | |
| In office 7 January 2020 – 3 March 2025 | |
| Chancellor | |
| Preceded by | Christine Aschbacher (2020) and herself |
| Succeeded by | Claudia Plakolm, Eva-Maria Holzleitner and Andreas Babler (2025) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1984 Vöcklabruck, Austria |
| Party | Austrian People's Party |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Innsbruck |
Susanne Raab (German: [sʊˈzanɛ ʁaːp]; née Knasmüller; born 20 October 1984) in Vöcklabruck is the Director General of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). She is an Austrian civil servant, jurist and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), who served as Federal Minister from 2020 to 2025. Prior to her political career, Susanne Raab held several key leadership positions in the Austrian civil service. First as Legal Advisor for Asylum and Migration Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, then as Head of the Department for Integration Coordination and eventually as Director General for Integration in the Austrian Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2020.
On 7 January 2025, Raab announced her withdrawal from federal politics and her position as minister in order to apply for the post of Director General of ICMPD. Since the swearing-in of the new federal government on 3 March 2025, she has no longer been a member of the government, but remained a member of the National Council until 22 September 2025. On 5 June 2025, she was elected and designated in Stockholm as the new Director General of ICMPD by its member states. Raab assumed office as Director General in January 2026.