Hanna Wilhelmer works at the Department for Cybersecurity at the Federal Chancellery of Austria where she heads a team in charge of setting up the Austrian National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity. She also represents Austria as Alternate in the Governing Board of the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre (ECCC).

Prior to her current position, she worked in foreign and security policy at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels with a focus on cybersecurity and among others at the Section for International Law and International Relations at the University of Vienna. Ms Wilhelmer holds a law and a Bachelor degree in Development Studies from University of Vienna.