| 1999 – today | Swissmem |
Chairman of Swissmem since 11/2010; Vice-Chairman since 2007; member of the executive committee since 2004 and the committee since 1999Swissmem is the largest industry association in Switzerland uniting the Engineering, Machine-, Electro and Metal Industry and associated technology-oriented sectors in Switzerland. It represents around 1000 member companies, 330’000 jobs in Switzerland and a contribution of 9% to the Swiss GDP. |
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| www.swissmem.ch | |
| 2009 – today | economiesuisse |
Vice-Chairman of economiesuisse since 3/2011; member of the executive committee since 2009economiesuisse is the largest umbrella organization representing the Swiss economy. economiesuisse has the support of more than 30,000 businesses of all sizes, employing a total of 1.5 million people in Switzerland. |
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| www.economiesuisse.ch | |
| 2008 – today | ETH-Board (board of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) – ETH Rat |
Member of the board of the ETH DomainThe ETH-Domain includes two of the leading technical universities in the world (ETH Zurich and EPFL) and four high-tech Research Institutions (PSI, EMPA, EAWAG and WSL) and has a budget of over CHF 2 billion. Members of the board of the ETH-Domain are nominated by the Swiss Federal Council (Bundesrat) for a period of 4 years. Their responsibility is to define the strategic direction of the domain, nominate the management teams of the institutions and the profesors of the universities, allocate the funds from the government to the six institutions and manage the governance of the domain on behalf of the Swiss Federation. |
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| www.ethrat.ch | |
| 2007 – today | Swisscontact Foundation, Switzerland |
Trustee (from 2007 until 2010 member of the Executive Committee)The Swisscontact Foundation is a Swiss public utility that supports development projects in developing countries around the world. Swisscontact provides the poor with access to markets, information, financial services, and ways to earn a living. Improved vocational training and workforce development programs, targeted support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and value-adding environmental projects provide them with a chance to change their lives for themselves. The goal is to find employment or successfully start a small business. |
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| www.swisscontact.ch | |
| 2005 – today | Vontobel Foundation, Switzerland |
Trustee and member of the Investment Committee The Vontobel Foundation is a Swiss foundation of public utility that supports cultural, scientific and charitable projects in the following domains: people that need help (community projects), medical research projects, history (Swiss), nature & environment, culture (music/theatre/art). |
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| www.vontobel-stiftung.ch | |
| 2007 – 2010 | Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband (Swiss Employer's Association) |
| Member of the Executive Board of SAV, an association representing the interest of Swiss industrial companies towards politics, particularly in the area of entrepreneurship, social politics, labor market and labor market law, education. |
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| www.arbeitgeber.ch | |
| 2006 – 2010 | WTTCHOst (Knowledge & Technology Transfer Iniviative), Switzerland |
| Chairman of the board of WTTCHOst, an initiative to support knowledge and technology transfer between Swiss universities and the industry, particularly small/ medium-size Swiss companies; part of federal initiative for Wissens- & Technologie-Transfer. |
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| www.wttchost.ch | |