Profile Category: <span>Advisory Board</span>

Baerbel lives and works as an architect and researcher in Vienna and Ghana und is architect and planner for BRAVEAURORA in Guabuliga since 2009. She is associated professor at the institute of architecture at the university for applied arts in Vienna, where she runs the lab [applied] Foreign Affairs, which inspects spatial and cultural phenomena in Subsaharan Africa and the Middle East. She is founder of nav_s baerbel mueller [navigations in the field of architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts], which focuses on projects on the African continent since 2002. Her work comprises of architecture, research in cities, installations, scenography and curatorial projects; contributions to (and others) Architekturbiennale Venedig, Biennale Marrakesch, Architekturmuseum Pinakothek München, AzW, Vienna Biennale.

She was honored with the Austrian Ars Docendi state award for excellence in science (2015), she is publisher of the books «[applied] Foreign Affairs» (2017) and «Structures of Displacement» (2020), realised the project Nubuke Extended in Accra (2019) and is co-curator of «Ecologies & Politics of the Living» (Wien Biennale 2021). She is co-publisher of forA on the urban (2021-).

Sonja Jöchtl is founder of Love Politics, a nonpartisan, charitable organisation which wants to lift a new generation of politician into politics.
She was executive of Stiftung Europäisches Forum Alpbach from 2015 to 2021, an interdisciplinary platform for sociopolitical dialogue, indipendent from ideological, religious or political worldviews. Sonja is expert for communication and philantropy with more than 10 years of experience on managing levels of Caritas Austria. She is member of the board at Österreichischer Stifungsverband, former member of the Austrian steering-group UN Global Compact and member of the board at the Austrian Fundraising Association. Sonja started her carrer as a trainee in an Austrian bank at the age of 17, she worked in an IT startup company for 5 years and was editor at an Austrian newspaper (Kurier) for 5 more years, which she did alongside her studies of communication and politics. She has a masters degree in communication (University of Vienna).
Sonja lives in Vienna, is married and mother of two sons.

René is based in St. Florian bei Linz and works as a university professor at the Institute for Public and Nonprofit Management at the JKU Linz. He is therefore also involved in research and teaching with associations and other non-profit organisations. Practical contacts, knowledge transfer and active cooperation are of great importance to him. For this reason, he has been personally involved in a number of NPOs (in a wide variety of roles) since his time as a student. His other passions include history and stories.

Christin was the chairwoman of the association from 2008 until 2021.
She originally is from Schärding / Upper Austria and now is living in Zurich since more than 15 years. Christin is the co-founder of Chi Impact Capital, an independent impact investing advisor based in Zurich. Christin studied at the JKU in Linz and completed her master's degree at Duke Law School in the U.S. and wrote her doctoral thesis at Harvard Law School. Christin is a university lecturer for impact investing and author of several books, the last of which is "Conscious Investing". Christin is a happy mom. Yoga is an integral part of her life.