
Key competences
- Organisational development and project management
- Strategic adviser on Development Education and Development Cooperation
- Lectures and trainings on these topics for different target groups (NGO representatives, officials of local governments, university students) in Austria, new EU-member states and developing countries
- Participatory methodologies to develop visions, strategies and annual action plans
- Expert on food and nutrition security, under-nutrition, nutrition in developing countries
Professional record
- Chief Executive Officer of Network Social Responsibility (since March 2009)
- Country Director in Ecuador at HORIZONT3000, the Austrian Development Organisation (2003-2005)
- Project Manager of development cooperation projects in Latin America and Africa (1999 -2003) at HORIZONT3000 in Vienna, Austria
- Lecturer on food and nutrition security, nutrition in developing countries and ecology at the University of Vienna and the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences of Vienna, Austria (1997 - 2007)
Education
- University of Vienna and Austrian Latin America Institute
Diploma in Latin American Studies, June 2007 - University of Vienna, Austria
PhD in Nutritional Science, May 2003 - University of Vienna, Austria
Magistra in Nutritional Science, July 1997
Publications (selection)
- Several articles on NMS, www.trialog.or.at (TIS - TRIALOG information Service), 2006 - 2009
- „Jetzt richtig investieren - CSR in Zeiten der Krise", Südwind, p26, Vienna, 2009
- „Gender Mainstreaming in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit", Festschrift, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, 2006
- „Ernährungseinfalt trotz Nahrungsvielfalt", Frauensolidarität Vol.90, 4/04, p.14/15, Vienna, 2004
- „Frauen und lokale Nahrungssicherheit oder Biodiversität in der Hand westlicher Konzerne", Koryphäe Vol. 31, p.16-19, Vienna, 2002
- "Städtische Landwirtschaft in Bolivien - Eine weibliche Subsistenzstrategie" in: Meyer-Renschhausen Elisabeth (Hg) "Die Gärten der Frauen", p.46-58, Berlin, 2002
- „Campesina, Migrantin und Cityfarmerin", Frauensolidarität Vol.76, 2/01, p.14/15, Vienna, 2001
- "La Paz: Urban Agriculture in harsh ecological conditions" in: Bakker Nico et.al. (Hg,) "Growing Cities, Growing Food" Urban Agriculture in the Policy Agenda. A reader on Urban Agriculture. S. 391-411, Eschborn (Germany), 2000
- "Wenn wegen der Indios die Wirtschaft leidet..", Monatszeitung LINKS, Nr. 14, Offenbach (Germany), 1993