🔒 From 2020: Interview with former Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and Swiss Ambassador to the US, Martin Dahinden

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Maya Plentz interviews Ambassador Martin Dahinden in July 2020
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Interview with Ambassador Martin Dahinden
Source: ICT4Peace
Until his recent retirement from the Swiss government, Dr. Martin Dahinden was Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States of America.
Prior to that, he was Head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Director of Corporate Management in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. During his long career in the Swiss diplomatic service, he held assignments in Paris, Lagos (Nigeria), New York, Brussels, Geneva and Bern. Martin Dahinden earned a Ph.D. in Economics (Business Administration) from the University of Zurich. Before joining the diplomatic service, he was employed by a bank and a publishing house.
Martin Dahinden has a longstanding and deep interest in peace and security affairs, beginning during his academic studies at the University of Zurich, practised inter alia during his posting at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to NATO in Brussels, as Ambassador and Head of the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and as Ambassador of Switzerland to the US.
Already during his tenure at GICHD in Geneva, he took an interest in and was advising the founders of ICT4Peace in 2004.