Mario Eckardt is a Skills Development Specialist currently leading two German Development Cooperation Initiatives in Kosovo focused on women’s economic empowerment, vocational training and labor market implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). From 2020 to 2024, he was seconded on behalf of GIZ/BMZ to the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. Previously, he managed several vocational training and private sector initiatives at AHK Japan and AHK Peru, advised Ecuador’s government on higher education, and guided skills development initiatives of GIZ in China and Mongolia. He holds a master’s degree in Business Psychology with a main focus in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Mario Eckardt
