Bettina Emmerling is Deputy Mayor of Vienna and Executive City Councillor for Education, Youth, Integration, Transparency and Markets. A member of NEOS, she previously led the party’s parliamentary group in Vienna and served as a member of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament from 2015 to 2025. Before entering politics, she spent more than 15 years at the Austrian Energy Agency, working on mobility and transport. Her current portfolio spans schools and early childhood education, youth policy, integration and diversity, immigration and citizenship, transparency, human rights and Vienna’s markets.