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Aleksandra Aleksić
ERSTE Foundation Library
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15463
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Aleksandra Aleksić
ERSTE Foundation Library
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From her thesis on the old Polish legal terminology of the Magdeburg Case via the arts & culture field of Austria, Aleksandra now doesn't dream her life but has been living her dream of multicultural teamwork and diversity at ERSTE Foundation since 2010.
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Christiane Binder
Communications Assistant
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15478
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Christiane Binder
Communications Assistant
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15478
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Having grown up in idyllic Styria, Christiane was actually more into urban places than mountains and moved to Vienna, where she completed a Master's degree in Journalism and Media Management. After freelancing for Austrian media, being an intern at the European Parliament in Brussels and working for a PR Agency in Vienna, she joined ERSTE Foundation in 2010.
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Christine Böhler
Director of Programme Culture
T: +43 (0)50100 - 19604
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Christine Böhler
Director of Programme Culture
T:+43 (0)50100 - 19604
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Christine is Deputy Managing Director of ERSTE Foundation and Director of Programme Culture. She is also Chairwomen of 'Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group'. She has worked as a journalist as well as curator and was director of the reading and exhibition programme in the Literaturhaus Vienna. She directed various international festivals focusing on Literature, Arts and New Media. She developed the concept of the Lichtzeile - an LED billboard and a ticker in the Web as a form of literary publication. In 2001, she published the book 'Literatur im Netz. Projekte, Hintergründe, Strukturen und Verlage im Netz' (Literature on the web. Projects, backgrounds, structures and publishing companies on the web.) (Triton Verlag). Christine studied Comparative Literature and Spanish in Vienna and Madrid and lectured at the University of Innsbruck on cross-cultural topics.
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Silvia Bohrn
Head of General Funding
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15424
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Silvia Bohrn
Head of General Funding
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15424
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Culture, art, intercultural communication, and management are the main topics in Silvia's professional life but the scope of her interests is unlimited. This lover of music is an expert on intercultural topics and has helped in making ERSTE Foundation's visions reality since 2005.
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Jutta Braidt
Head of ERSTE Foundation Library
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15461
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Jutta Braidt
Head of ERSTE Foundation Library
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15461
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Despite having studied Comparative Literature and Rhetorics at the University of Vienna and UC Berkeley, Jutta is still convinced that books are not just for the studious, but for reading. Since 2007, she has been providing and engendering knowledge as Head of ERSTE Foundation Library.
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Johannes Brodnig
Assistant Budget & Organisation
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15847
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Ursula Dechant
Programme Assistant
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15430
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Ursula Dechant
Programme Assistant
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15430
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Ursula's motto is that happiness is not a state to arrive in, but a manner of travelling. Well, certainly she has done plenty of the latter. While born and raised in Austria, Ursula has lived and worked all over the map - literally! Luxembourg, Grenoble, Paris, Athens have proven to be a valuable detour to finally arrive at ERSTE Foundation in 2005.
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Maria Derntl
Programme Culture
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15484
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Maria Derntl
Programme Culture
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15484
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Since joining ERSTE Foundation in 2008, Maria has lead and executed projects as well as guided project partners through various application and development processes. Previously, she worked at documenta 12 and Tanzquartier Wien.
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Rupert Dollinger
Member of the Board
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Rupert Dollinger
Member of the Board
Rupert studied law at the University of Vienna, International Studies in Bruges and was Chief Human Resources Officer of Erste Bank for 18 years. He has been a Member of the Board of ERSTE Foundation since 2011. Under his aegis, the bank developed into a Central European player. Rupert is more than familiar with the international perspective of ERSTE Foundation, its commitment to people and has dedicated himself to the cause.
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Doraja Eberle
Member of the Board
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Doraja Eberle
Member of the Board
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Doraja is member of the board of ERSTE Foundation since 2011. She holds a diploma as a social worker and was previously member of the provincial government of Salzburg. In 1992, she founded an association called "Bauern helfen Bauern", which enables victims of the Balkan wars to return to their homes. Doraja has received numerous awards for her social commitment, such as the Mitteleuropapreis of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe or the Peacebuilding Award of the EastWest Institute in New York.
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Christiane Erharter
Programme Culture
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15402
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Christiane Erharter
Programme Culture
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15402
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Having worked as a curator of contemporary art in Innsbruck and Oslo has not only lead Christiane to working as a curator and project manager at ERSTE Foundation, but also to a membership in the Vienna based queer-feminist DJ collective 'Quote'! For Christiane, having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at Lund University in Sweden as well as writing a column for an.schläge - a feminist monthly magazine - has certainly contributed to her multifaceted life!
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Robin Gosejohann
Project Manager Europe
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15432
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Robin Gosejohann
Project Manager Europe
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15432
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Robin worked for a thinktank in Berlin, then in Istanbul, when he decided to make his workplace a desk at ERSTE Foundation’s Programme Europe in 2007. An economic historian by training, he oversees civil society initiatives on journalism, media, education and socio-economic research. He represents ERSTE Foundation in the Steering Group of the Grantmakers East Forum, a forum for interlinking donor activities in Central and Southeastern Europe.
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Andreea Gurău
Communications Manager
T: +43 (0)50100 - 19614
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Andreea Gurău
Communications Manager
T:+43 (0)50100 - 19614
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With 10 years’ experience in the PR world in Romania, Andreea decided to leave the commercial sector behind and focus on what mostly interests her: promote the good work of good people and organisations from the CEE countries. Since 2010, she has been spinning the plates of ERSTE Foundation's communications activities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and the Slovak Republic. All at the same time!
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Miroslava Holečková
Programme Assistant
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15495
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Miroslava Holečková
Programme Assistant
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15495
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Wanting to support important projects of philanthropic purpose led the former tour guide for visitors of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) headquarters in Vienna to ERSTE Foundation in 2008. Here, she guides programme information through our database - and is in daily contact with our project partners, ensuring efficient project administration and implementation.
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Sonja Kainbacher
Controller
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15412
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Sonja Kainbacher
Controller
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15412
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Sonja, who holds a degree in Business Consultancy; core area audit & assurance and investment & finance counceling, first started off in Austrian Airline's Controlling Department. Working for ERSTE Foundation since 2008, the native Carinthian has been responsible for budget, reporting and IT issues.
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Maribel Königer
Head of Communications
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15453
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Maribel Königer
Head of Communications
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15453
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Together with her team, Maribel communicates ERSTE Foundation and its projects to the world. Joining the organisation in early 2007, Maribel, a Munich-born art historian, journalist, art critic and former press officer of EXPO 2000 in Hanover and documenta X in Kassel, has since established ERSTE Foundation’s Communications Department. She considers her job the most fulfilling that she can imagine: talking all day long about things that you are deeply convinced of. Currently, she is learning Serbian at ERSTE Foundation: "Ja zaista imam najbolji posao na svetu!"
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Boris Marte
Member of the Board and Managing Director
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Boris Marte
Member of the Board and Managing Director
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Before joining Erste Group as Head of Corporate Sponsoring and, consequently, building up ERSTE Foundation, Boris held various positions in the fields of politics and cultural politics. Among others, he worked with Erhard Busek, Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Science and Research, and Peter Marboe, Cultural Commissioner of the City of Vienna. Furthermore, Boris headed a team to establish Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust monument in Vienna and worked as Advisor for the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the educational and architectural Reform of Mauthausen. Boris has a university degree in law from the Vienna Law School. During the time of his studies he spent some years in different jobs in the Viennese off-theatre scene. Boris has written and published several books. Reminiscing the good amount of his childhood years that he spent in Moscow in the '70s, Boris likes to host 'Russian themed parties' every once in a while.
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Vera Millauer
Head of Office and Facility Management
T: :+43 (0)50100 - 15846
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Vera Millauer
Head of Office and Facility Management
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From tourism management to PR to the banking business – Vera has a rather broad background. After working in different areas in Erste Bank, she joined ERSTE Foundation in September 2011.
Vera loves to help the ones in need, admires contemporary art and enjoys being around friendly and cheerful people. ERSTE Foundation has it all!
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Knut Neumayer
Director of Programme Europe
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15438
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Knut Neumayer
Director of Programme Europe
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15438
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Knut tries to follow Peter Druckers quote "Do the right thing. Do the things right.", knowing that this is a lifelong project. On a daily basis he works on the development of Programme Europe, quality management of projects and the establishment of internal and external networks.
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Anna Nöst
Head of Budget & Organisation
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15454
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Anna Nöst
Head of Budget & Organisation
T:+43 (0)50100 – 15454
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Anna has a helpful perspective on things - and she wants more! More participation, more awareness, more emancipation. A former CFO and business consultant, she now fosters ERSTE Foundation in sowing seeds of encouragement for individuals in their surroundings, having helped them grow and develop since 2007.
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Jelena Petrović
Assistant General Funding
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15845
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Jelena Petrović
Assistant General Funding
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After finishing her studies in German Literature, Belgrade-born Jelena worked as a literary translator before joining ERSTE Foundation's General Funding team. Coming from the region that Jelena knows in and out, her contributions to the Foundation have been expedient since 2008.
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Dejan Petrović
Project Manager Social Development
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15421
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Dejan Petrović
Project Manager Social Development
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15421
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After completing his degree in veterinary medicine, Dejan's interests and devotion quickly shifted to engaging himself in countless cultural and social issues in the human world. He joined the Foundation with the wish to make an active contribution to social change and a society of equal opportunities - and by being the person responsible for the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration this is exactly what he does today.
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Franz Karl Prüller
Director of Programme Social Development
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15439
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Franz Karl Prüller
Director of Programme Social Development
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15439
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Although Franz Karl is still pondering his life motto, it seems like he already found it a long time ago: philanthropy! For 17 years, he worked for Caritas Austria, also in Armenia, Romania, Kurdistan/Iran, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda and in numerous other countries. In 2005, Franz Karl brought his expertise - and himself, of course - to ERSTE Foundation, where he finds huge satisfaction helping to develop the social agenda of the Foundation: a new adventure every day.
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Filip Radunović
Project Manager Europe
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15452
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Filip Radunović
Project Manager Europe
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15452
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Born in Podgorica, Montenegro, Filip then grew up in places with strong local dialects: Munich, San Antonio and Vienna! Hardly surprising he chose to focus on semiotics in his doctoral thesis. His knowledge in media psychology is of great value in building up ERSTE Foundation Community, an initiative that gathers some 100 people from the fields of art, research and NGOs, to exchange ideas, create synergies and contribute with innovative impulses to the work of the Foundation in the framework of the European Forum Alpbach every year.
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Simona Rhomberg
In-house Counsel
T: +43(0)50100 - 19613
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Susanne Schaller
Assistant to Boris Marte
T: +43 (0)50100 - 16333
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Susanne Schaller
Assistant to Boris Marte
T:+43 (0)50100 - 16333
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Susanne has been with the Foundation since the very beginning. She has outstanding organisational skills and a good sense of humour. She is the right hand of Boris Marte and if he is not there, rest assured, she will be able to help you. Susanne supported UNIDO and various banking institutions before joining ERSTE Foundation in 2005, where she enjoys the vivid spirit and atmosphere.
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Bernhard Schmidt
Assistant Budget & Organisation
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15488
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Angelika Senoner
In-house Counsel
T: +43 (0)50100 - 19613
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Angelika Senoner
In-house Counsel
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After having studied in Austria, France and Japan and some years of work experience with a bullish energy drinks company, Angelika joined ERSTE Foundation in 2009. She is particularly passionate about ERSTE Foundation's goal to make people's lives better!
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Alina Șerban
Project Manager Social Development
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15416
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Alina Șerban
Project Manager Social Development
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15416
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Alina loves swimming - mostly in Vienna's multicultural soup. Interested in culture, arts, politics, literature and music, she is currently a PhD student in Sociology, focusing on Action Research and Performative Social Sciences. Besides her career with the Foundation since 2010, Alina also works as theatre trainer with the Theatre of the Oppressed method.
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Alexander Spiegelfeld
Programme Social Development
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15842
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Alexander Spiegelfeld
Programme Social Development
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15842
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For Alexander, the multinational aspect of ERSTE Foundation's work as well as the realistic perspective of changing things were a major motivation to join the team. Born and raised in Vienna, Alexander has been communicating ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration online since 2010, bringing many innovative and daring initiatives on board.
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Andreas Treichl
Chairman of the Board
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Andreas Treichl
Chairman of the Board
Descended from five generations of bankers, Andreas, CEO of Erste Group, had actually wanted to become a conductor. However, the advice he received from Leonard Bernstein changed his mind. So he then went on to study economics and started his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York in 1977. Since 1997, he has been CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Die Erste österreichische Spar-Casse Bank AG, now Erste Group, transforming the 200-year-old savings bank into one of the largest financial institutions of Central and Eastern Europe. Andreas is Chairman of the Managing Board of ERSTE Foundation.
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Jovana Trifunović
Communications Manager
T: +43 (0)50100 – 15844
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Jovana Trifunović
Communications Manager
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Belgrade, Berlin, Belgrade, Vienna, Venice, Vienna, Belgrade, Vienna. Jovana has certainly moved around a lot! This has, however, only added to her experience and had significant impact on her professional development - skills, which the communications expert has honed even more when joining ERSTE Foundation in 2008. Before joining the team, Jovana worked at the OSCE Mission to Serbia on the country’s democratic reforms. She has a demanding job, handling, among other things, PR activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia, but always keeps her cool. How cool!
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Heide Wihrheim
Programme Culture
T: +43 (0)50 100 – 11092
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Heide Wihrheim
Programme Culture
T:+43 (0)50 100 – 11092
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Born in Fargo (USA), a place made famous by a Coen brothers' film, Heide spent most of her life in Austria. After finishing university programmes in journalism and theatre, film and media studies in Vienna and San Francisco, cornerstones in Heide's career were heading the press department at Tanzquartier Wien and working as production manager at Wiener Festwochen. After that, she worked with the sponsoring department of Erste Bank 'Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Programme of Erste Group'. All these vocational challenges have equipped her well for her latest challenge: the Culture Programme of ERSTE Foundation, where she started in 2009.
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Richard Wolf
Member of the Board
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Richard Wolf
Member of the Board
Not only has Richard been on ERSTE Foundation's Board since 2008, but he is also a partner in Wolf Theiss, one of the leading law firms in Central and South Eastern Europe, where his expertise and main practice areas are banking, finance, capital markets as well as mergers and acquisitions. He was born in Paris, educated in Austria and in the US, and gained experience at the EU Commission in Brussels and at Chase Manhattan Bank.
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Eva Zalesky
Assistant
Board Meeting Management
T: +43 (0)50100 - 15455
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Eva Zalesky
Assistant
Board Meeting Management
T:+43 (0)50100 - 15455
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There is a saying: “Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.” Eva has been celebrating this every day since September 2007, when she joined the Foundation to, among other tasks, take care of the Foundation’s board meetings – her practical contribution to the work of ERSTE Foundation.
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Rainer Münz
Scientific Advisor
T: +43 (0)50100 - 17200
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Maurizio Poletto
Art Director, Collettiva Design
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Franz Portisch
Managing Director Legal Affairs
T: +43 (0)50100 - 16323
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Franz Portisch
Managing Director Legal Affairs
T:+43 (0)50100 - 16323
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His degree in Economics first took Franz to Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance, where he was a supervisor of financial market authority. In 2001, a career change brought Franz to Erste Bank. Starting off in the communications and public affairs department, he soon after became the Head of the Company Secretariat. For ERSTE Foundation, he has been the Managing Director of the Legal Affairs Department since 2003.
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Helmut Schalko
Accounting
T: +43 (0)50100 - 18600
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Helmut Schalko
Accounting
T:+43 (0)50100 - 18600
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Born in a beautiful part of Lower Austria, Helmut came to Vienna to study at the University of Economics, of which he holds a Master's degree. In one way or another (meaning after various mergers and acquisitions), he has, since then, exclusively worked at Erste Bank. Helmut is head of accounting of both Erste Bank Österreich and ERSTE Foundation.
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Martin Wohlmuth
Financial Planning and Capital Markets
T: +43 (0)50100 - 11987
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Martin Wohlmuth
Financial Planning and Capital Markets
T:+43 (0)50100 - 11987
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After having graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Martin started his banking career in 1989. In 1991, he began working for Erste Bank, heading the New Issues and Funding department from 1993 on. Since 2002, he has been Head of the Group Strategy Department. Martin is responsible for Financial Planning and Capital Markets for ERSTE Foundation.
