MAS Security Policy and Crisis Management

is Professor of International and Swiss Security Policy at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS). He is the delegate for the MAS ETH SPCM of the Department of Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich and is the MAS ETH SPCM representative. Andreas holds a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich.

is emerited Professor at the ETH Zurich. He was Head of Military Sociology at the Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland (1990-2008).

is currently the Head of the Political Affairs Division IV (PD IV - Human Security) in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Greminger entered the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1990. In 1996 he became head of the Policy and Research Section of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC). He was stationed in Maputo in 1999 as Swiss Development Cooperation Coordinator and Chargé d'Affaires in Mozambique. Since 2001 he has been Deputy Head of PD IV and Head of the Peace Policy and Human Security Section, as well as second PD IV representative on KOFF-SteeCom. Ambassador Greminger's primary research interests revolve around the need to develop a cohesive and standardized human security strategy in the European Union.

is a Senior Fellow at DCAF’s Research Division. He currently works on security sector reform and peace processes; on engaging armed nonstate actors in security sector reform and governance; on the legitimacy and utility of subsidiary roles of armed forces; on women and children as agents of peace and conflict in post-conflict peacebuilding; on the practise of security sector reform in challenging environments; and on human security-based threat analyses and their relevance for security sector institutions.

is Head of the Security and Law Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He joined GCSP in October 2008 from Royal Holloway College, University of London, where he was Professor of Strategy and the Law of Military Operations and founding Head of its Department of Politics and International Relations.

is member of Deutsche Bank Management Board since 2006. He is Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee. He joined Deutsche Bank in London in 1996 as Head of Global Markets Credit. He was appointed Chief Credit Officer in 2000 and became Chief Risk Officer for Credit and Operational Risk in 2004.

was appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom in 2010. Since 2006, he has been deputy state-secretary and political director of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern, responsible for Switzerland’s multilateral policies, including disarmament.
Before, he was ambassador to Belgium in 1999, head of the Swiss mission to NATO (1999-2003) and ambassador to Canada and the Bahamans (2003-2006).

is the Director of International Relations at the Swiss Armed Forces. Before, he was the Head of Division for Multilateral Treaties and Armed Forces Relations, and Deputy Head of International Relations at the Swiss Armed Forces. Furthermore, he acted as the Head of Division for Arms Control, International Law of Armed Conflicts and Verifications, and as the Head of Global Arms Control.

is Deputy Director of the Cranfield University Security and Resilience Group, based at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Counter Terrorism and lectures on various Master’s level degree courses.

recently retired after 36 years in UK Government service, mostly in the Home Office, but also in the Northern Ireland Office and the Cabinet Office. In his final post, as Director for Counter Terrorism and Intelligence, he was the principal policy and operational adviser to the Home Secretary during the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the London bombings of July 2005.

is a Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). He is currently working on developing and embedding Business and Operational Risk Management, as well as Business Continuity Management.

recently retired from the UK police service after 34 years in both operational and strategic command roles leading on serious and organised crime, international crime co-ordination and counter terrorism.

is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the National Security and Resilience department at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

is Director of Research and Director, UK Defence Policy at the Royal United Services Institute.

is Chairman of Elbit Systems UK.