| Dr. Jenö C. A. Staehelin | |
| Born 14.1.1940 in Basel, Switzerland | |
| Dr. iur. (Bern), LL.M. (Harvard) Attorney-at-law, Zurich Ambassador (ret.) |
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| Married to Irène Staehelin–Schindler (1945 - 2019), Master of Arts (M.A.) in Anthropology / Graduate Certificate of African Studies, Boston University, Mass. | |
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| 1969 Admission to the Swiss Foreign Service |
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| 1971 – 1976 Legal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) |
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| 1976 – 1977 Swiss Delegation to OECD, Paris |
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| 1977 – 1984 Vice-President of European Patent Office, Munich |
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| 1984 – 1987 MOFA, Deputy Director for International Organizations |
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| 1987 – 1993 MOFA, Head of European and North American Affairs Department, Ambassador |
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| 1991 – 1993 Concurrently: Ambassador on Special Mission to the Holy See, Vatican |
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| 1993 – 1997 Ambassador to Japan |
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| 1997 – 2004 Ambassador to the United Nations, New York |
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| 2003 President of the Executive Board of UNICEF, New York |
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| 2004 – 2005 Special Advisor to Swiss Foreign Minister |
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| 2005 Commissioner General of Switzerland, EXPO 05, Aichi, Japan |
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| 1997 - 2010 Member of the Dean's Advisory Board, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
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| 2000 – 2006 Member of the Board of the International Peace Academy / International Peace Institute, New York |
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| 2005 – 2007 Member of the Board of the «Graduate Institute of International Studies», Geneva |
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| 2006 – 2010 Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva |
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| 2006 – 2012 Member/Vice-President of the «Center for Humanitarian Dialogue», Geneva |
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| 2011 – 2015 Member of the Overseers’ Visiting Committee for the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
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| 2007 - 2019 Member/Interim Chairman of the Board of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva |
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| 2011 - 2015 Dean of the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs, Switzerland |
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| 2014 - 2020 Founder and President of the Jury of «The Geneva Challenge», Geneva |
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| Since 2006 Chairman of the Board of the Dr. Jenö Staehelin Foundation, Switzerland |
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| 1980 - 2010 Member of the Board of Schindler Holding Ltd, Switzerland |
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| Since 2019 Member of the Board of the Ubuntu Foundation/San Culture & Education Centre, Switzerland/South Africa |
