Dr Konstantin Klien was born on April 26, 1951, is married and has a son.
He holds a doctorate in business management from the Vienna University of Economics.

He started his professional career at Arthur Andersen in 1977 and changed to Nordstern Versicherung in 1978, where he became Member of the Board in 1986. He managed Nordstern’s merger with Colonia and was appointed CEO in 1991. In 1997, when Nordstern-Colonia was acquired by AXA, France, he had already expanded business activities to Hungary and Liechtenstein with two separate companies.

Since 2002, he has been CEO of UNIQA Versicherungen AG, Austria’s largest insurer, which resulted from a merger between Bundesländer, Austria-Collegialität and Raiffeisen Versicherung in 1997 and is presently one of the fastest-growing companies in Central and Central Eastern Europe.

Dr Klien holds the Chair  in the Presidential Committee of the Austrian Insurance Association and is a member of the Supervisory Board of Casinos AG Austria.

His international mandates include a statutory membership in the Geneva Association and the representative seat of the Austrian Insurance Association in the Comité Européen des Assurances.

It is Dr Klien’s main concern to consolidate domestic activities and at the same time strengthen UNIQA’s commitment in its promising international companies.

His private interests focus on art, sports and his family.