Stefan Flückiger
Stefan Flückiger (born September 14, 1958 in Männedorf ) is a Swiss diplomat .
Life
Flückiger completed a degree in English at the University of Zurich until 1985 and in 1987/1988 a post-graduate degree as part of a Fulbright scholarship at the American elite Yale University (Yale Graduate School).
In 1989 he joined the diplomatic service and worked at the Swiss embassy in Harare / Zimbabwe until 1990 . In 1991 he returned to Switzerland and was a consultant for the Development Aid Committee of the OECD at the Federal Office for Foreign Trade . From 1994 to 1997 he was posted to the World Bank , where he worked in Washington, DC and as the Bank's agent for Haiti in Port-au-Prince . In 1997 he was transferred to the Swiss Embassy in Berlin as head of the Economics and Trade Department under Ambassador Thomas Borer . From 2002 to 2005 Flückiger was seconded to the Avenir Suisse think tank in Zurich , where he led the strategy and planning department. In 2006 he first became Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the OECD before taking over the chief position in October 2010.
At the beginning of June 2013, Flückiger hit the headlines when he was stopped by the French police with his company car in Paris and shot at his car. Switzerland immediately waived diplomatic immunity in order to enable investigations into the reported incident. Federal Councilor Didier Burkhalter initiated an administrative investigation, the purpose of which was to establish the facts. The media reports were never confirmed by the official French side, and proceedings were never opened.
In 2014 Flückiger returned to Switzerland and took over the head of the Sectoral Foreign Policy Department of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in Bern.
Publications
- With Hans Rentsch , Thomas Held , Yvonne Heiniger, Thomas Straubhaar : Economics of Reform - Paths to more growth in Switzerland / Germany. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-280-05046-4 ( about the book)
- With Martina Schwab: Globalization: The second wave. What Switzerland expects . 3rd edition, NZZ Libro, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03-823706-8 .
- Weal and woe of globalization. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 23, 2017.
source
- Biography ( memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), oecd.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alan Cassidy: Doubts about the “blue journey” of the Swiss ambassador in Paris. In: Switzerland on Sunday 21 July 2013
- ↑ Switzerland waives immunity. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 5, 2013
- ↑ Swiss OECD ambassador leaves Paris. In: NZZ online from October 25, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flückiger, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss diplomat, permanent representative of Switzerland to the OECD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Männedorf |