Cornelia Walch

Dipl.-Ing. Cornelia Walch is the Group Sustainability Coordinator at ÖBB – the Austrian Federal Railways – in Vienna. She began her career at the ÖBB Group in 2017 and after working in the Department for Quality, Safety and Environment at ÖBB Infrastructure AG, she joined the Sustainability Team in the Department for Rail System and Technology at ÖBB-Holding AG in 2019.

Cornelia is responsible for the coordination of all sustainability related topics within the ÖBB Group. Together with representatives from the subsidiaries, Cornelia and her team have defined a Sustainability Strategy that encompasses an ecological, a social and an economic pillar and is divided into 17 building blocks, which are backed with targets.

Her responsibilities also include the preparation of the Group’s annual Sustainability Report that is being audited and published as part of the Annual Group Report, which is being done on a voluntary basis.

Education

Cornelia holds a Master’s degree (graduate engineering degree) in Industrial Environmental Protection from Montanuniversität Leoben.