Petra Schwager

Petra Schwager is Chief of the Energy Technologies and Industrial Applications Division at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Petra has more than 20 years of experience in managing international technical cooperation programmes and networks for inclusive and sustainable industrial development. She has vast experience in resource efficiency, sustainable energy, eco-industrial parks and performance-based circular economy business models. In her current position at UNIDO, she promotes the uptake of frontier energy technologies in developing and transition countries. She develops new business and cooperation models to impulse the transfer of low-carbon technologies for productive use and poverty alleviation. She designed and leads UNIDO’s Global Programme for Green Hydrogen in Industry. She studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and environmental management at the University of London.