Lifelong learner, explorer, writer
Following on the Baby Boomers and leading the way for the Millennials, Generation X grew up in a world of crumbling certainties. While defining oneself against prior generations is a constant in the history of humankind, for people born in Central Europe in the 1970s, the upcoming transition into the third millennium felt like a more major watershed, reinforced by the end of the bipolar world order and the advent of globalisation and the world-wide web.
Born in Austria, Johannes Chudoba spent seven formative years in Turkey before returning to his home town of Graz in 1982. His studies in cross-cultural communication took him to Moscow in 1993, and Dublin in 1994. From 1995, he embarked on a career in international development, starting in Croatia with the Austrian Peace Services and Bosnia-Herzegovina with the UN. Returning to Austria in 2022, Chudoba founded an IT company and dedicated a significant chunk of his time to collecting stories from his life and the lives of his ancestors. So far, two books have been published: Sovereignty: Our parents’ legacy (2024) and Schattengeneration 1955 (2025, in German).