Team

Co-director
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Working for the Alps: when and where necessary

Background: Change Manager, Journalist, Cheese maker & pastoralist, businessman

Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French

My favourite place in the Alps: those small meadows at those last mountain streams that still roar unused and unspoilt over rocks

What excites me: Encounters

Co-director & Head of Communications
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Friday

Background: Journalism, MAS in Communication Management and Leadership

Languages: German, English, French, Italian (advanced), Spanish (basic)

My favourite place in the Alps: a sun-warmed rock in San Romerio – high above the “Valposchiavo” in southern Switzerland

What excites me: Stories of people, for people, with people

Project Manager / Economic transition
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Working for the Alps:  almost always and everywhere

Background: Regional Development, Organizational Development, Moderation- Conflict Management

Languages: French, German, English, Italian

My favourite place in the Alps: the whole terrain in the Silvretta in the Vorarlberg region of Austria 

What excites me: language itself, backcountry ski-touring, music, the sea

Project Manager / Economic transition
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Working for the Alps: Monday-Friday

Background: Communication Sciences, Sustainaible Tourism Management

Languages: German, English, French (advanced)

My favourite place in the Alps: Anywhere the sun awakes me from a cosy bivouac

What excites me: rugged landscapes and mountains, high valleys with meandering rivers, cooking with high-quality products, every single minute on my bike(s)

Project Manager / Services
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: master degree in conference interpreting, Higher vocational college for tourism

Languages: German (mother tongue), Italian, English, French, basic skills in Spanish and Portuguese

My favourite place in the Alps: unspoiled coniferous forests & mountain pastures (such as in the High Tauern National Park)

What excites me: nature in kitchen, cellar and garden, travelling and international dialogues

Project Manager / Nature and People
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Working for the Alps:  Monday-Thursday

Background: Social- and Cultural Anthropology, Regional- and Location Management, Regional Development

Languages: German (Native Speaker), English (advanced), French (basic)

My favourite place in the Alps: in winter, on my skitouring skies in the backcountry, above the treeline – anywhere but gladly in the Montafon

What excites me: outdoors, immersed in nature, alone or in the company of equally enthusastic people, natural cuisine, typical regional food, good coffee

Project manager / Communication
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Thursday

Background: German Philology, Media Studies

Languages: German, English

My favourite place in the Alps: campfire on the banks of river Dornbirner Ach

What excites me: singing, dancing, and the lust for life (in the Alps)

Project Manager / Communications
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: Master in Psychology and Political Science

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), French, Italian and Spanish (basic)

My favourite places in the Alps: Dolomites

What excites me: nature, mountain sports, environmental psychology, books and movies

Project Manager Communications
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Working for the Alps: Monday – Friday

Background: Journalism, PR in Tourism, Master in Communication Science/Journalism

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), Italian (basic)

My favourite places in the Alps: Villach, where I grew up. Innsbruck, where I used to live several years. And Montafon valley

What excites me: climbing mountains, exploring new places and sharing my passion for the Alps with others

Project manager / Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: on maternity leave

Background: Plant and Soil Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation and Management

Languages: French, German, English, Italian

My favourite place in the Alps: The mountain pastures (Alps) where I worked : Monte San Lucio, Ticino, with 100 goats and 8 cows, Staffel alp Zermatt, with 27 cows, above the Geneva lake, and with 600 sheep and a baby in Starlera, Grisons.

What excites me: Earth architecture, Tango, choir singing and travelling without the need of airplanes

Project manager / Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday - Thursday

Background: Geographer, long time experience in environmental analysis, development cooperation and education, with a detour into regional development and spatial planning

Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French

My favorite place in the Alps: Old Rhine near Lustenau

What excites me: wide and wild landscapes, water, encounters and good conversations, slow travelling, the south of France, spinning ideas, intelligence and eloquence, dance and yoga

Administration/HR Assistance
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday (all day), Wednesday - Friday (mornings)

Background: French and English Studies

Languages: German, English, French,

My favourite place in the Alps: my garden with a beautiful view onto the Alps

What excites me: pleasureable dining and drinking, untouched snowy slopes glistering in the sun, Yoga

Assistant to the management and administration
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday-Thursday

Background: Master in Business Administration – Major Public and Nonprofit Management

Languages: German, French, English

My favourite place in the Alps: Maggia valley in Switzerland

What excites me: Forests, travelling, cinema, reading, music

Intern
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: Philosophy and Political Sciences (B.A.), Environment and Natural Ressources (M.Sc.)

Languages: German (mother tongue), Englisch, French

My favourite place in the Alps: There are too many amazing and quite different places in the Alps for me to pick one. Home, with view on the Glärnisch, is probably amongst my favourites at the moment, however.

What excites me: Mountains. And having discussions on issues that are close to my heart, such as social justice.

Intern
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: Transcultural Communication (German, English, Italian) and Cultural and Social Anthropology (B.A.), Journalism and New Media (M.A.)

Languages: German, Slovenian (mother tongues), English, Italian (advanced), French, Spanish (basic)

My favourite place in the Alps: The Ebenalp with the Wildkirchli caves and the Aescher mountain inn.

What excites me: Sunsets, languages, the colors of nature, music and dance, good coffee