Colonel Christof Tatschl is a co-founder and member of the Board of the Global Governance Institute. He is an Austrian Airforce Officer who was commissioned from the Austrian Theresian Military Academy in 1990 and graduated as an AF CIS-officer. In 2000 he graduated from the General Staff Officers Course in Vienna and 2005 from the University in Vienna where he earned his master degree in National Defense and Higher Leadership. His master thesis elaborated on information warfare and its application to the Austrian Armed Forces. From 2002 to 2003 he attended the US-Army-Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth in Kansas USA. Colonel Tatschl has served at all levels in the Armed Forces, commanded at battalion and brigade level. He was posted for 2.5 years as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Standby High Readiness Brigade. In this capacity he was leading a military capacity building program with the Eastern African Stand-by Force in Nairobi and the ECOWAS Standby Force. He served as a Chief of Staff in the Austrian Military Representation to NATO and EU in Brussels and as the Austrian military attaché accredited in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.
In Austria he always worked in the CIS and Cyber Defense branch at all levels. He was the first director of the Austrian Military Computer Emergency Readiness Team. Today he serves as the Deputy Director of the CIS and Cyber Directorate of the Austrian General Staff and the chief capability planner for CIS, Cyber, EW and InfoOps. His special expertise is in the fields of: CIS, Cyber Defense, Information Operations, South East Asia Security Policy.