Starlinger intern, 2024/01 - Issue 36

Clarissa Graf (centre) – pictured here with Miriam Wirnig (left) and Ilona Wimmer – will leave the CSR team at the end of July 2024.

CHANGE AT THE TOP OF THE CSR AND SUSTAINABILITY TEAM

Clarissa Graf, who set up the CSR department at Starlinger in 2019, will be leaving the company at the end of July to pursue new challenges. In her place, Ilona Wimmer will take over as Head of CSR/Sustainability at the beginning of August and is going to relinquish all of her duties in controlling in the process. After more than 20 years at the company, she knows Starlinger inside out and will be able to contribute her expertise in data management to meet future reporting obligations relating to sustainability. Over the past five years, a lot has happened under Clarissa Graf’s stewardship to make the topics of sustainability and social responsibility tangible for employees at the company: The first sustainability report was produced and the next one prepared, a company-wide CSR strategy was developed and various projects, such as our current “Fit & X’sund Weissenbach” initiative, were launched. Starlinger adheres

to the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, and is a member of respACT, Austria’s leading platform for supporting companies with responsible and sustainable business practices. “I would like to thank Clarissa from the bottom of my heart for addressing the important issue of sustainability at Starlinger and setting a lot of things in motion,” said Ilona Wimmer at Clarissa Graf’s farewell in the Vienna office. Encouraging words came from Clarissa Graf: “I hope that the CSR team – Ilona Wimmer and Miriam Wirnig, who will soon be joined by Emma Palecek – continues their work with joy, and wish them courage, drive, patience and confidence. I am convinced that you will rise to the new challenges and I am counting on the support of all other colleagues at Starlinger. Let’s not polarise things, but instead work together to take meaningful action and implement projects that benefit everybody.”

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