Andreas J. Obrecht coordinates the office of the Commission for Development Studies and he is responsible to build up a new focus area for 'Higher Education & Research for International Development Cooperation' at the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH) .

Research Strategies, Assessments, Project Coordination, Publications and Scientific Events

As a Cultural Anthropologist and a professor of Sociology he looks back at 20 years of research experience mainly in the field of Development Research and Analysis of Socio-Cultural Transformation Processes - particularly in Melanesia, Sub-Saharan Africa and in South-East-Asia.
Recently published: “Geschichten aus anderen Welten” (Böhlau Verlag) together with an ORF-Ö1-CD-Edition. 

Telephone: +43 1 4814507 16 and +43 664 88511318
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Research cooperations: administration
Event organisation and office administration
Public relations
Communication and networking

Technical and contentual maintenance of the KEF-website, news screening, newsletter service, blogs and bulletin boards.
Administration of on- and offline databases, intellectual capital report, address data, project data.
Composition of reports and publications, prearrangement and postprocessing of events.

Project: Researchers on the Move
Organisation, content, ccordination of project partners, media contacts, public relations.