
PROFESSOR Gerhard Berchtold

PROFESSOR Gerhard Berchtold
Gerhard Berchtold is Professor, Dean and Vice-Rector of International Strategic Development of Universidad Azteca, Chalco-Mexico. Gerhard Berchtold earned degrees in International Management, Higher Education Management, Environmental Decision Making, Environmental Technology, Business Administration, Public Administration, Environmental Policy, Education, and Law. An Austrian scholar, management consultant, environmental policy advisor and an expert on environmental technology, waste and environmental management, Prof. Berchtold was professor and director of the School of Environmental and Waste Management at Universidad Central de Nicaragua. Since the 1980s, Professor Berchtold has held a wide range of professional management and policy management experience, as well as distance education management and lecturing, research and consulting experiences especially in the areas of waste management, environmental policy, soil and groundwater remediation, general management and strategic and transnational higher open and distance education management. Professor Berchtold has linguistic proficiency in German, English, Italian, Spanish and French. He has served the Austrian national Parliament (1990-2002) and the European Parliament (1995-1996) as consultant and assistant, was a full-vote member of the Austrian Superfund Commission (Altlastensanierungskommission 1995-1999) and headed the environmental legislation working-group of the branch of waste and waste water management within the Federal Economic Chamber of Austria WKO (2000-2005), he used to be the administrative and political director of an independent fraction of the Tirol State Legislature (2005-2008). He has won awards including the Austrian annual prize for environment and public administration proposals, Oekomanager 2000, and is also a Salzburg Seminar alumnus (Environment and Diplomacy, 1994). He has published numerous publications and contributed substantially to both, environmental and waste management at the operational level in terms of projects, facilities and technologies, as well as to formulation, development and implementation of environmental law.
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African Institute of Management, Technology and Development Studies
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