Ms. Karin Reiss-Haimbala is a Program Manager at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria. With over 15 years of experience, she is currently managing a portfolio of projects and programs in the field of Sustainable Energy, Industrial Decarbonisation and Climate Change Adaptation in Industries with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
From 2013 – 2019 she was based at the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) in Praia, Cape Verde and subsequently at the SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE) in Windhoek, Namibia where she provided strategic support to the institutional setup and the development of regional flagship programmes.
Before she joined UNIDO she worked for the Austrian Energy Agency on international collaborations in Energy Policy and Capacity Building in Developing Countries and Countries with economies in transition.
