Professional experience

• since 2023 FHNW School of Business, co-director NPPM Institute
• since 2022 Habegger Strategy, Managing Director
• 2011-2021 Swiss Re, various leadership positions in risk management (Head political risk management, sustainability risk, emerging risk)
• 2010-2011 EBP AG, Risk and Security Consultant
• 2005-2010 ETH Zürich Center for Security Studies, Project Leader

Civic engagement

• since 2022 President Interkantonale Legislativkonferenz ILK
• since 2017 Member, Committee for the Equality of Women and Men, Canton of Zurich
• since 2015 Member, Parliament of the Canton of Zurich
• 2015-2023 Member, International Advisory Board, ZHAW School of Management and Law

Education

• 2020 CAS Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of St. Gallen
• 2020 Leadership for Global Business and Politics, Yale School of Management
• 2005 Doctorate/PhD (Staatswissenschaften), University of St. Gallen
• 1995-2000 Studies in Business, Economics, Law, and Social Sciences at the Universities of Berne, St. Gallen, and Sciences Po Paris

Academic Activities

• since 2005 Lecturer, University of St. Gallen
• 2022-2023 Senior Lecturer, ZHAW School of Management and Law
• 2021-2023 Global/Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• 2009 Visiting Researcher, LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (SNF-Fellow)
• 2003 Visiting Researcher at the Council of Europe, OSCE and IPU (SNF-Fellow)
• 2000-2003 Research Associate (Political Science, Public and Administrative Law), University of St. Gallen

Research focus

• Security and (qualitative) risk management in the private and public sector
• Organizational anticipation and foresight of future developments (strategic foresight)
• Influence of geopolitics on the economy, business, and society
• Political system and especially the role of parliaments

• Securing the Future: The Use of Strategic Foresight in the Security Sector, in: Strategic Security Analysis, Issue 23, 2022, Geneva: Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
• Wirksame parlamentarische Kontrolle durch Aufsichtskommissionen: Mitglieder, Zusammensetzung und Ansätze zur Attraktivitätssteigerung, in: Parlament: Mitteilungsblatt der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Parlamentsfragen, 24(2), 2021, pp. 14-20
• Political Risk Management as an Imperative for the Insurance Industry – and Beyond, in: Wirtschaft und Management, Band 29, 2020, pp. 51-62.
• Strategic Foresight in Public Policy: Reviewing the Experiences of the UK, Singapore, and the Netherlands, in: Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, 42(1), 2010, pp. 49-58.
• Democratic Accountability of International Organizations: Parliamentary Control within the Council of Europe and the OSCE and the Prospects for the United Nations, in: Cooperation and Conflict, 45(2), 2010, pp. 186-204.

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