Gunter Schall is heading the Development Communications Unit in Austrian Development Agency (ADA). Prior to this assignment in November 2022, he served as head of ADA’s Private Sector and Development Unit. Before joining the ADA- Team in 2008 he worked as an advisor for trade and development policy at the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Policy at the University of Freiburg. Gunter holds a PhD in economics.