Melanie Sully was born in Bristol in South West England and studied Politics at the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Keele. After lecturing in the UK she moved to Austria in 1988 firstly as a professor in Innsbruck and then at Vienna University before moving on to the post-graduate Diplomatic Academy. Melanie is a member of the UK parliamentary Hansard Society, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House London and the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the UN. Dr Sully has written widely on Austrian, European and UK political and current affairs.