Manfred Egger

Team Leader - VTESS

Laos
Vocational Training and Employment Support Services (VTESS), Senior Management Team (SMT)

With a technical background (Electronics Engineer) and some years of industry experience Manfred joined Swisscontact in 1986 to set up the section Communication Electronics at the Vocational Education Development Centre in Indonesia. The passion to work with people in  the context that Swisscontact does has never ceased and has allowed Manfred to contribute to and manage development projects in the area of skills development for Swisscontact also in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Nepal. Since July 2019, Manfred is the Team Leader of another Swisscontact project in Lao PDR. The Vocational Training and Employment Support Services Project (VTESS) supports early school leavers to find their way into employment or back into education.