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Tabea Hirzel is an independent consultant for communties of praxis, professor for trade and negotiations at the UGSM Monarch Business School Switzerland and President of the European Association for Community Learning Lingua Franca.

--Background-- Tabea Hirzel stays close to politics and social life in Switzerland where she obtained a Business Diploma from KLZ Business School Zurich in 2001 after working 7 years in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry. Fascinated by the multiple facets of rural economies she moved to Spain where she worked for an International Real Estate and Construction Business as Director of Finance and Human Resources. In 2004 she received her M.B.A. from University Uniactiva and EAE Business School, Barcelona.

In the same year she moved on to Spain’s largest wine producing area in New Castile where she started her own advisory company, designing strategic business and marketing processes for viticulture companies of the area. In 2005 she was honoured for her efforts by the IDEA Business Award from the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (Council of Castilla-La Mancha). Two years later she was hired as Marketing Director for Europe largest wine producer, Virgen de las Viña, SCV. She specialized in business negotiations and agricultural trade with Eastern European, Russian and Far Eastern markets. She is deeply involved in agricultural politics, cooperative business structures and international food trade.