VIS - Key Persons
President Alexander Van der Bellen visiting VIS in 2017 when nominated the 1st international Eco school in Austria
is the representative of United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), where he is a legal officer with the International Trade Law Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Mr. Kunzelmann has previously practised law in both government and the private sector in Australia, specializing in constitutional, international, and commercial law. Mr. Kunzelmann has also lived and studied in Switzerland and the Netherlands. He is a keen amateur musician, playing violin and viola in orchestras in Canberra, The Hague, and Vienna. Mr. Kunzelmann has one son in Primary School.
Mr. Ivica Pepovski (Treasurer) is the representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he heads the Finance Unit in the Department of Technical Cooperation. His experience (and interests) is in public finance, procurement and budgeting. Mr. Pepovski is a father of two children in Secondary School.
is an elected member. James is a commercial lawyer in London.
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- Representative of the UNIDO
Mr. Peter Krist, is the representative of the UNIDO, where he is a Chief of Accounts, Payments and Treasury Unit. He has a master degree in electro-technical engineering from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and he is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK. He has over 27 years of experience in Finance, Accounting and Auditing, working for various multi-national corporations and international organizations. Last 12 years he is serving in UN, of which one year in New York. He has two children graduated from VIS and one currently in the Secondary School.
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- Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank 's Vienna
Mr. Tigran Shmis (elected member) is a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank's Vienna office. He covers the education programmes in Western Balkans and Central Asia. He has extensive educational experience, having earned a specialist degree in computer sciences and economics (teacher), a Ph.D. in educational ICTs from the Russian Academy of Education, and a master's degree in education management and educational policy from the University of Manchester. Tigran has worked on the preparation and implementation of educational projects in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bhutan, Guyana, Kosovo, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Peru, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. His most recent projects are the Tajikistan LEARN project, India's Gujarat GOAL and Nagaland's NECTAR projects, and the Kosovo Early Childhood Care and Education project. During the COVID-19 crisis, Tigran contributed to the data gathering and response strategies to this crisis and led a few initiatives in response to and recovery from COVID-19. Tigran's areas of research and professional interests include innovative learning environments, Early Childhood Development, international assessment work, and COVID-19 response.
Ms. Cinthia Echavarria (Chairperson) is the representative of CTBTO (bio to follow).