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Max Schweizer (2012)

Max Schweizer (born May 29, 1950 in Zurich ) is a Swiss diplomat .

Life

Schweizer studied geography , history and political science at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1979. phil. II. From 1980 to 2012 he worked as a diplomat for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) ; most recently, from 2007 to 2012, as Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the World Trade Organization WTO and the European Free Trade Association EFTA in Geneva .

As a lecturer, he created and headed the Foreign Affairs and Applied Diplomacy department at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur from 2012 to 2015 . He is visiting professor at the Zhuhai Campus of Beijing Technical University .

From 2015 to 2019 he presided over the SwissDiplomats - ZurichNetwork, which he co-founded, and is the managing director of Dr. Max Schweizer - Foreign & Economic Affairs.

Schweizer is the editor of several text collections on Swiss foreign policy . Various bilateral relations are highlighted, for example with the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , as well as with Turkey . During his lectureship, he also produced a trilogy on important foreign policy issues: Swiss diplomacy, European politics and Switzerland's role in the world trading village.

Honors

Works

New release 2015
  • Max Schweizer: Pictures from Neu-Schweizerland 1831–1900: Development and growth of a Swiss immigrant settlement in the United States of North America ( Madison County , Illinois ) . Zürcher, Zug 1978.
  • Max Schweizer: Neu-Schweizerland 1831–1880: Genesis and function of a Swiss immigrant settlement in the United States of North America ( Madison County , Illinois ) . (Dissertation, University of Zurich, 1979).
  • Max Schweizer (Ed.): Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania: Swiss-Baltic Reading Book . Werd Verlag (Switzerland) , Zurich 2001, ISBN 9986-899-90-7 .
  • Max Schweizer (Hrsg.): Between Riga and Lugano: Swiss-Latvian reader . Werd Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 9955-522-00-3 .
  • Max Schweizer (Ed.): Between Tallinn and Zurich: Swiss-Estonian reading book . Werd Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 9955-522-07-0 .
  • as editor: Between Vilnius and Bern: Swiss-Lithuanian reading book. Werd Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85932-492-2 .
  • Max Schweizer (Ed.): Between Ankara and Lausanne: Turkey on the way to Europe: a reader . Chronos Verlag , Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-0340-0688-8 .
  • Max Schweizer (ed.): Diplomatic life: actors, scenes, heckling: a reader . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1267-6 .
  • Max Schweizer, Dominique Ursprung (Ed.): Integration at the end? Switzerland in the discourse about its European policy: a reader . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-0340-1313-0 .
  • Max Schweizer (Ed.): Switzerland in the World Trade Village: Initiatives, Conferences, Conflicts: A Reader . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0340-1366-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait database of the ZHAW . accessed on June 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ e Executive Commitee, SwissDiplomats - ZurichNetwork  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swissdiplomats.net  
  3. ↑ Dr. Max Schweizer - Foreign & Economic Affairs
  4. ^ Honorary Doctors, Kaunas University of Technology , accessed June 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland