Markus Maeder

Markus Mäder is a senior staff officer in the Swiss Army ( brigadier ).

Markus Mäder studied general history , geography , Swiss history and constitutional studies at the University of Zurich . From 1997 to 2001 Mäder was a research assistant at the Research Center for Security Policy at ETH Zurich (today Center for Security Studies). Between 2001 and 2003 he was a research fellow at the Center for Defense Studies at King's College London . In 2003 he did his doctorate at the University of Zurich and then worked until 2007 as a security policy advisor and deputy head for armed forces and armaments planning in the Directorate for Security Policy of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS). He was then Deputy Military Representative on the Swiss Mission to NATO in Brussels until 2010 and then completed his training as a Defense Attaché. As such, he was then used in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. In 2015 and 2016, he completed a Masters of Science in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, DC .

From August 2016 he was the personal assistant to the Head of International Relations, Defense, and from December 2016 he took over this position himself while being promoted to brigadier.

Web links

• International Relations Defense (IB V)

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• DDPS : Appointment of Senior Staff Officers of the Army , accessed November 30, 2016