Ruth Steinholtz’s international legal career spans eight countries on three continents.  She is currently General Counsel & Group Security Coordinator for Borealis AG, a leading provider of innovative plastics solutions, based in Vienna.  Her interests go beyond the legal arena into leadership, corporate ethics and compliance as well as crisis management.  Ruth has implemented global incident management programmes in two multinational companies, as well as the “Ethics Excellence Programme” at Borealis.  She conducts frequent trainings on these topics.

In addition to her full time work since 1990 as in-house counsel first in Cadbury Beverages Europe and later at Allergan, Inc., Ruth founded and is a director of the Consortium for Continuing Legal Education in Europe, the only “customer-driven” continuing legal education programme in Europe.  Ruth was certified as a mediator by CEDR in 2003.

Prior to this Ruth was in private practice.  She began her career in San Francisco, California. Ruth graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder (B.A.) and received her law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.