Contributors

Doraja Eberle was member of the Managing Board of ERSTE Foundation since 2011 and its Chairwoman from 2012-2014. From 2015-2017 she was Chairwoman of its Advisory Board. After working as a social worker for the province of Salzburg for more than ten years, she founded the private relief organisation “Bauern helfen Bauern” (Farmers help Farmers) in 1992, which enables victims of the Balkan wars to return to their homes. Since then, she devoted her time to humanitarian aid and infrastructure projects in areas of conflict during the Yugoslav wars and still does so today. From 2004 to 2010 she was a member of the provincial government of Salzburg and responsible, among other things, for children, youth, senior citizens, family, education, integration politics and the National Park Hohe Tauern. Eberle has held numerous political and voluntary positions; she has received several international prizes and awards for her humanitarian work, such as the Mitteleuropapreis of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe or the Peacebuilding Award of the EastWest Institute in New York.