Gerhard Milletich is the CIO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Austria. After completing his studies in Economic Informatics, Mr Milletich embarked on a career, which included the following roles: IT Organiser in the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Analyst at Pioneer Overseas and Chief Organiser in the Austrian M.o.F.A.  In 1993, at the age of 35, he became the youngest department chief to be appointed in the M.o.F.A when he took on the position of Head of IT. During this appointment, Mr Milletich began to modernise the Austrian delegations, through a client-server system based on Windows NT - at a time when NT seemed to represent a risky decision. Improved communication possibilities with the delegations was the first big…