Advisory Boards
The KONTEXT Institute is advised by a high-profile, interdisciplinary Advisory Board and a Scientific Advisory Board of subject-matter experts. Both boards not only help ensure the quality of our work but, together with a broad base of supporters, also safeguard KONTEXT’s independence.
Advisory Board

Franz Angerer
Managing Director, Austrian Energy Agency

Wolfgang Anzengruber
CEOs FOR FUTURE

Christoph Badelt
President, Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council

Verena Ehold
Managing Director, Environment Agency Austria

Irmgard Griss
Jurist & Former President of the Supreme Court of Justice

Christoph Hofinger
Managing Director, Foresight

Johannes Kopf
Chair of the Executive Board, Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)

Daniela Kraus
Secretary General, Presseclub Concordia

Anita Malli
Head of Environment and Sustainability, ORF

Florian Maringer
Managing Director, Windkraft Österreich

Marie Ringler
Europe Leader, Ashoka, and Vice President, European Forum Alpbach

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Director General, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Klaus Schwertner
Director, Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna

Martin Selmayr
Former Secretary-General of the European Commission

Sandra Walder
Head of Climate Team & Head of Domestic News, APA – Austria Presse Agentur
Scientific Advisory Board
Ernest Aigner
Social-Ecological Economics
Institute for Social-Ecological Systems, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Alina Brad
Political Science
University of Vienna
Ulrich Brand
Political Science
University of Vienna
Thomas Brudermann
Sustainability Research and Climate Psychology
University of Graz
Tamara Ehs
Political Science and Democracy Consulting
Ehs & Fils Demokratieberatung
Daniel Ennöckl
Law
BOKU University
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
Political Science
University of Vienna
Franz Essl
Ecology, Biodiversity & Global Change
University of Vienna
Katharina Gangl
Behavioural Science
Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM)
Willi Haas
Social Ecology
BOKU University
Helmut Haberl
Social-Ecological Metabolism and Resource Use
BOKU University
Edith Haslinger
Geothermal Energy, Geology & Hydrochemistry
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Daniel Huppmann
Energy Systems & Integrated Modelling of Emission Scenarios
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Judith Kapeller
Simulation-Based Techno-Economic Assessment of Hybrid Power Plants
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Thomas Kienberger
Industrial Energy Systems, Energy Grids & Energy Efficiency
Montanuniversität Leoben
Lukas Kranzl
Buildings, Heating & Cooling
TU Wien
Helga Kromp-Kolb
Meteorology, Climate Science & Sustainable Development
BOKU University, emerita
Barbara Laa
Transport Science
TU Wien
Ulrich Leth
Transport Planning
TU Wien
Sarah Louise Nash
Political Science
University for Continuing Education Krems
Andreas Novy
Socio-Economics
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Ilona M. Otto
Societal Impacts of Climate Change
University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
Günther Pauritsch
Energy Economics & Infrastructure
Austrian Energy Agency
Melanie Pichler
Political Science
BOKU University
Keywan Riahi
Earth System Analysis & Integrated Modelling of Emission Scenarios
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Patrick Scherhaufer
Political Science
BOKU University
Johannes Schmidt
Energy Economics
BOKU University
Franziska Schöniger
Energy Economics & Energy System Modelling
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), BOKU University
Margit Schratzenstaller
Public Finance
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
Sigrid Stagl
Ecological Economics
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Karl Steininger
Economics / Climate Economics
University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
Reinhard Steurer
Political Science
BOKU University
Hendrik Theine
Media Economics, Political Economy and Ecological Economics
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Isabella Uhl-Hädicke
Environmental Psychology
University of Salzburg
Alice Vadrot
Environmental Politics
University of Vienna
Johanna Vogel
Environmental and Climate Economics
Environment Agency Austria