General Secretary : Dr. Johannes Bergmair

Dr. Johannes Bergmair studied food- and biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). He completed his technical master at Institute for Food Technology in the year 1999. His special field within the range of packing is the quality assurance within the Supply chain „food “. In this area - apart from numerous publications in magazines – he finished his doctor thesis at Technical University (TU) Vienna in the autumn 2002. Since July 2000 he is employed at OFI Packaging Institute in Vienna, where he fills the position of an institute leader since April 2003.Dr. Bergmair holds numerous lectures for packaging technology on several Austrian and German universities, works as court expert for packaging and as an auditor for hygiene management in producing packaging materials (e.g. BRC/IoP, ISO 22.000, EN 15593 and FEFCO GMP). Dr. Bergmair is member of the Austrian Standardisation Committee “Packaging” and Austrian Board Member of WPO (World Packaging Organisation) since 2011. Starting with 2014 he has the honour to fulfil the function of a WPO’s Vice President for Sustainability and Food Safety.