Karin Lukas-Cox was born in Montreal, Canada, and went to school in France. She studied »Kulturtechnik und Wasserwirtschaft« at BOKU and graduated in 1995 with her Diploma thesis »Proposal for bilateral cooperation between Austria and Guatemala in the water sector«.
In 2010 she did her Master of Business Administration at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C., USA. Her native languages are English, German and French and she is fluent in Spanish.