Princess Maria-Pia | |
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.jpg) Her Serine Highness in 2024 | |
| Ambassador and Head of Delegation to the Organization on Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) | |
| Assumed office December 1997 | |
| Ambassador of Liechtenstein to Austria | |
| Assumed office July 2000 | |
| Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations | |
| Assumed office April 2011 | |
| Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the Czech Republic | |
| Assumed office April 2011 | |
| Ambassador of Liechtenstein to Belgium and to theEuropean Union | |
| In office August 1996 – 1997 | |
| Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Brussels | |
| In office 1993–1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1960-08-06)6 August 1960 (age 65) Vienna, Austria |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Hieronymous Kothbauer |
| Parent(s) | Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein Archduchess Agnes Christina of Austria |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Princely family of Liechtenstein |
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Descendants of Prince Franz Joseph II
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Descendants of Prince Aloys
Princess Marie Christine
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Extended princely family
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Princess Maria-Pia of Liechtenstein (Maria-Pia Ludovika Ulrika Elisabeth Paschaline Katharina Ignazia Lucia Johanna Josefa; born 6 August 1960), also known asMaria-Pia Kothbauer, is Liechtensteiner diplomat and a member of thePrincely family of Liechtenstein. She serves as theAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofLiechtenstein toAustria and theCzech Republic, formerly also toBelgium and theEuropean Union. She also serves as Liechtenstein'sPermanent Representative to theOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and to theUnited Nations.
Born inVienna, Princess Maria-Pia is the fifth child and second daughter ofPrince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein and Archduchess Agnes Christina of Austria. A member of thePrincely Family of Liechtenstein, she is a first cousin of the present monarch,Prince Hans-Adam II. Her paternal grandparents werePrince Alois of Liechtenstein andArchduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria. Her maternal grandparents wereArchduke Hubert Salvator of Austria andPrincess Rosemary of Salm-Salm. On 4 August 1995, she marriedMax Kothbauer, then vice president ofCreditanstalt-Bankverein and later vice president of theOesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). The couple's only child, a son named Hieronymus, was born on 26 January 1997.[1]
Princess Maria-Pia graduated from the Schule der Dominikanerinnen, run byDominican nuns, in Vienna in 1978. She then enrolled inColumbia University, attaining the degree ofMaster of Arts in Political Science.[2][3]
From 1984 until 1986, she worked for theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and then from 1987 until 1988 for the Foreign Department ofCaritas in Vienna. Since 1989, Princess Maria-Pia has been in diplomatic service of the Principality of Liechtenstein, and started working for the Embassy of Liechtenstein in Vienna in 1990. From 1993 until 1996, she served as Liechtenstein's Ambassador toBelgium and theEuropean Union.[2][4]
In August 1996, she became Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Vienna, as well as Ambassador and Head of Delegation to theOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), where she is the longest-serving ambassador. In December next year, Liechtenstein assumed the office ofAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Liechtenstein to Austria. Since July 2000, she has served asPermanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations.[2][3] In April 2011, she became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Liechtenstein to theCzech Republic. She resides in Vienna.[3]
Liechtenstein speaks German, English and French, and has basic knowledge of Spanish.[2]
