Hans-Peter Ritt
Head Central Europe Office
Business development in Central Europe

Mag. Hans Peter Ritt graduated in history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and studied in Hamburg and Vienna. He was a collaborator and manager of scientific research projects, training and consulting projects for private enterprises as well as interdisciplinary projects and complex programmes on behalf of public authorities.

Currently he is the managing director of milestone projectmanagement gmbh with a focus on the new media activities. Additionally, he works as a management trainer and consultant for clients in Austria and Germany. In his function as the programme manager of "multimedia business austria", he has been responsible for designing and steering this multi-annual initiative launched by the Economic Ministry since 1997. In 1998, he initiated multimedia reader.at and, since then, has been the publisher of this directory of Austrian multimedia production. Since 2000, he has headed the tender office of the "nml" programme for the promotion of digital media in teaching at universities commissioned by the Science Ministry.

Hans-Peter Ritt is the editor of a series of publications on issues related to the digital media, among which the "European Usability Catalogue", a directory of usability service providers and usability laboratories throughout Europe, is particularly dear to him.

In 2003, Hans-Peter Ritt joined the European Multimedia Forum as Head of the Central European Office based in Vienna.