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Introducing Energy Efficiency Specialist Christoph Tagwerker - from Lower Austria to Latin America Print E-mail
bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad

By Andreas Fandl


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Energy efficiency specialist Christoph Tagwerker

Born in 1974 in the Weinviertel, Lower Austria, Christoph Tagwerker has been concerned about the environment since his early childhood. At a time when the concept of “sustainability” had only started to gain some relevance in the world, he had already told his parents to recycle more carefully and not to use the family car that often. “I have no clue where my knack for the environment really originated from,” says Tagwerker, “but I simply always cared for environmental issues.”

Due to this interest, Tagwerker decided to study process engineering, a mixture of mechanical and chemical engineering, which was a new academic field in 1995 at the Vienna University of Technology where he focused on equipment, plant engineering, and environment. With the goal of broadening his horizons, Tagwerker joined the European student mobility program, Erasmus . He attended the University of Santiago de Compostela in
  "The Erasmus year had a huge impact on my life; actually that is why I am here at the IDB."
Spain for a year, and got hooked on the Spanish culture: “People are so friendly and much more relaxed, it is easy to make relationships and, moreover, the culture and food is fantastic and they have the best soccer team, FC Barcelona.” So when Tagwerker learned by coincidence that a position for a Spanish-speaking energy efficiency expert at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) , was being announced at the Ministry of Finance in Vienna, it was a no-brainer for him to apply. At that time, Tagwerker was already working for a Viennese consulting company in the area of energy efficiency. In September 2006, Tagwerker left Vienna for the IDB headquarters in Washington, DC, for a two-year stint as energy efficiency specialist working on Latin American and Caribbean countries.

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