Heinz Krummenacher

Heinz Krummenacher "received his MA (1982) and PhD (1985) in political science from the University of Zurich. He started his professional career with the Swiss Defense Department where he directed a study group dealing with the re-definition of Swiss security policy (1985-1989). Between 1990 and 1992 he served as foreign editor with the Swiss daily newspaper "Der Bund". Before joining swisspeace in 1998 he was head of the social research department at IHA-GfK, a leading market research institute (1992-1998). He is a member of the UN staff college's Early Warning Preventive Measures Training Unit. At swisspeace he was head of the early warning program FAST International. He is now CEO of the BEFORE project and Deputy Director of swisspeace."