Der Vorstand
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Eithne KnappitschPresident
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Svetlana BukoVice-President
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Birgit HochreiterTreasurer
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Colin HellerSecretary
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Razvan-Andrei ZamfirHead of IT
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Mahsin “Eddy” MohamedPM & Content Developer
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Weirong LiPM & Content Developer
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Zalina AlievaPM & Content Developer
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Abedalqader HalawehProject Manager
Eithne Bio
Svetlana Bio
Svetlana is a sociologist, manager and cross-border researcher with intercultural experience in six countries. She graduated from Gymnasium in California (the USA, 1997), completed a specialist degree in St.Petersburg (Russia, 2002), conducted doctoral research on American-Ukrainian management (Kyiv, Ukraine 2009), concluded her post-doctoral research with ERSTE Foundation (Vienna, Austria, 2013).
Svetlana has managed US-European national field research projects (leadership, women entrepreneurship, cultural intelligence), designed and delivered HRM training (onboarding programs, pre-departure orientations, and re-entries), published in peer-reviewed journals, and has delivered guest lectures and presented at conferences across the globe. She is a docent of intercultural management, teaching at MA level Program “Intercultural Management” of School of Advanced Social Studies, (Nova Gorica, Slovenia), and a Senior Researcher the School of Management at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Villach, Austria).
Svetlana is currently working on the research project “Cross-border entrepreneurship and innovation in the tri-border region: Slovenia-Italy-Austria” and serves as an instructional designer for the cross-border business COIL labs.
Birgit Bio
Birgit Hochreiter is a consultant, business coach and trainer with the main focus on intercultural competencies, development of personal potential, and vision finding. She is the founder of Birgit Hochreiter Consulting.
Birgit has studied business economics, has a postgraduate diploma in Intercultural Competencies and is a business and life coach. Before her self-employment, Birgit worked for an international group and then as a project manager for a consultancy.
She speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish.

Colin Heller
Colin Bio
Colin Heller works as a full-time Senior Lecturer / Senior Researcher and Language Coordinator at the University of Applied Sciences Carinthia (CUAS). He teaches German as a foreign language, Russian and German Language for specific purposes.
As a studied Slavic and foreign Germanic, he completed his doctorate in 2017 at the University of Klagenfurt in Russian Linguistics (Lexicography).
For more than ten years, he has been working in the field of applied linguistics.
Research interests:
Teaching German as a foreign language, Russian, Terminology, language for specific purposes, dictionary-making (German – Russian).

Zalina Alieva

Abedalqader Halaweh
Der Vorstand von SIETAR Austria fördert die Vereinstätigkeit und arbeitet unter anderem an folgenden Zielen und Inhalten:
- den Bekanntheitsgrad des Vereins erhöhen,
- die Öffentlichkeit über Aktivitäten des Vereins informieren,
- den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis fördern,
- den Verein weiterentwickeln und vieles mehr.
Der Vorstand von SIETAR Austria ist ehrenamtlich tätig.