European Network of Green Seniors: Homelessness and Poverty

Irmgard Seidler, Green Generation Plus Burgenland and Austrian Board Member of ENGS 

Irmgard was born in Bavaria, and lived and worked for 20 years in South Africa as well as 5 years in Canada working on the issue of International Freight Forwarding. She also spent 17 years in Texas and New York working as an environmental activist. Since 2010, she has been active as a human rights activist and as chairperson of Green GenerationPlus Burgenland, as well as serving as a representative of the Green Generation Plus Austria in the European Network of Green Seniors (ENGS).   

Stephan Schulmeister, Economic researcher and university lecturer

Senior Fellow at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna 1972 to 2012. Studies at the University of Vienna (1965-1972), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1972/74), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna (1975/76). Visiting scholar at New York University (1983), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (1987/88), University of New Hampshire (1998 and 2005), International Monetary Fund (2010).
Key area of research: Instability of financial markets and its impact on the real economy.