Senior Researcher, ÖFSE – the Austrian Foundation for Development Research

Margarita Langthaler is a researcher in the field of education and development. In her work, she focuses on education strategies in the context of development cooperation, on TVET and skills development and on education policies in developing countries. She is a political scientist and philologist by training and has been a researcher at ÖFSE since 2003.

Her research areas include:

• Education strategies in development cooperation
• Vocational training and skills development
• Education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Development Research in Austria

Prior to working as a Researcher at ÖFSE, Margarita worked at the OPEC Fund for International Development, Vienna (2000-2003) and as a Teacher at private and public schools in Perugia and Florence, Italy (1996-2000).