Roman Stiftner is Managing Director of the Austrian Mining and Steel Association and the Austrian Non Ferrous Metals Federation within the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber since 2008. He is Vice President of Euromines since 2016 and since 2014 Member of the Euromines’ Steering Committee. In 2017 Roman has been elected as a Member of the Executive Board of the European Aluminium and as Chairman of the European National Associations. In the year 2011 he became Secretary General of the European Raw Materials platform ‘Eumicon’ and President of the Austrian Logistic Association. From 2008 until 2015 Roman was Member of the Vienna Provincial Parliament. The years before he was CEO of Dematic Austria, Central-Eastern-Europe and Head of Department for logistics automation of Siemens AG Austria. After finishing the technical college, Roman studied at the Technical University as well as at the Economic and Business University of Vienna and graduated in 1994.