Michael Ambühl

Michael Ambühl, 2009

Michael Ambühl (born September 26, 1951 in Bern ) is a former State Secretary in the Federal Department of Finance , where he headed the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). The mathematician and business administration graduate worked in the Swiss diplomatic service from 1982 to 2013. Since September 2013 he has been a full professor for negotiation and conflict management at ETH Zurich .

Life

Michael Ambühl was born in Bern in 1951 and grew up in the federal city. His father was a scientist, his mother came from a family of politicians. One uncle was Hans Schaffner , who in the 1960s was a Federal Councilor and then a member of the UN's expert group on the activities of multinational corporations in the Third World.

Ambühl studied business administration and applied mathematics at the ETH Zurich and graduated with a doctorate sc. Techn. ETH from. He was particularly fond of game theory , the analysis of decision-making behavior in conflict situations.

After working as an assistant (1976–1980) or senior assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich (1980–1982), Michael Ambühl joined the diplomatic service of the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1982 , where he worked his way up to the top.

Michael Ambühl is married and has one son.

Career

In 1983/84 Michael Ambühl was initially employed as a stagiaire in Bern and Kinshasa . Returned to Bern in 1984, he was assigned to the United Nations and International Organizations Section as a diplomatic officer until 1988. In 1988 he was transferred to Delhi , where he headed the economic section.

From 1992, Michael Ambühl Counselor at the EU mission was in Brussels and member of the negotiating team for the Bilateral I . In 1999, it appointed Federal Chief of the Integration Office DFA / DEA. In this capacity he was negotiator for the Bilaterals II from 2001-2004 .

In 1999 he was appointed ambassador . From February 2005 to February 2010 Michael Ambühl was State Secretary of the Political Directorate in the Department of Foreign Affairs .

In March 2010 he took over the management of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF), moving from the foreign to the finance department. The newly created State Secretariat is responsible for the coordination and strategic management of international finance, currency and tax issues. Ambühl negotiated in the tax dispute with the United States and with neighboring Swiss countries. Ambühl also represented Switzerland in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in the Financial Stability Board and in matters of international combat against financial crime.

In May 2013, Ambühl announced his resignation as State Secretary at the end of August 2013. In September 2013, he took over a professorship for negotiation and conflict management at the ETH Zurich. His successor as State Secretary for International Finance (SIF) was Jacques de Watteville on November 1, 2013 .

In his new sphere of activity as a professor at the ETH, Ambühl set the tone in the relationship between science and politics. In 2015, for example, he organized a training course for new parliamentarians with the participation of professors from several Swiss universities for the first time. He also wrote comments on international conflicts from a neutral point of view. Since 2016 he has also been Director of the Swiss School of Public Governance at ETH Zurich. This new center for interdisciplinary research and teaching for steering and management tasks in the public sector aims to promote executives in public administration through further training programs. The CAS course in International Policy and Advocacy will be held for the first time in 2017 . Upon successful completion, the graduates will be awarded the corresponding Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) . Another CAS Public Governance and Administration certificate course is also offered.

In 2016, Ambühl prepared a proposal for the implementation of the mass immigration initiative for the Conference of the Cantonal Governments KdK. The so-called bottom-up safeguard clause was presented to the public on August 25, 2016.

Works

• For selecting parameters in criminal cost proceedings. ETH Zurich, 1980 ( dissertation )
• Michael Ambühl, Aymo Brunetti (Ed.): EU economic policy from a Swiss perspective. Paul Haupt, Bern 2004, ISBN 3-258-06672-8 .

literature

• Lukas Hässig : The engineer . In: Das Magazin 1/2011 of January 14, 2011, pp. 8-13

Web links

• Documents by and about Michael Ambühl in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
• Michael Ambühl ( memento of August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the federal authority
• Susanne Mühlemann: Power network by Michael Ambühl: The poker face. In: Bilanz 2/2009, January 30, 2009
• Hannes Nussbaumer: UBS should appoint Ambühl as honorary president. ( Memento from August 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 21, 2009
• Doris Kleck: Back to field 1. ( Memento from August 18, 2013 on WebCite ) In: Die Nordwestschweiz / Aargauer Zeitung from August 17, 2013
• Delicate missions: Michael Ambühl's balance sheet. Video in: ECO , SRF 1 from August 26, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Secretaries. In: parlament.ch, accessed on September 24, 2012 (PDF file)
2. ↑ Lukas Hässig : Der Ingenieur , Das Magazin , January 8, 2011, accessed on November 4, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Susanne Mühlemann: Power network by Michael Ambühl: Das Pokerface . Balance sheet . January 30, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2009.
4. ↑ CV Michael Ambühl . EVS. Archived from the original on August 10, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
5. ↑ Peter Hossli: The man without a plan B. In: SonntagsBlick of September 23, 2012
6. ^ Markus Häfliger: State Secretary Ambühl becomes a professor . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 24, 2013
7. ↑ State Secretary Michael Ambühl accepts a new challenge. In: admin.ch from May 24, 2013
8. ↑ Fabian Renz: Widmer-Schlumpfs interim solution. ( Memento from September 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Tages-Anzeiger from September 4, 2013
9. ↑ Simon Gemperli: ETH offers crash course for newly elected parliamentarians. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 28, 2015, p. 9.
10. ↑ Michael Ambühl and Daniela Scherer: The contradictions in international nuclear policy. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 17, 2015, p. 15 (PDF file).
11. ↑ Swiss School of Public Governance (SSPG)
12. ↑ ETH Zurich founds a center for leadership in the public sector. Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 17, 2016
13. ↑ Media release from August 25 , 2016 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Conference of Cantonal Governments. Retrieved September 8, 2016. 
14. ↑ EU economic policy from a Swiss perspective. In: Perlentaucher.de , accessed on May 25, 2013