Career
Diplomat, Government Switzerland, The Hague, Brussels and Washington, 1970-1991;
ambassador plenipotentiary, delegate for trade agreements, Government of Switzerland, 1986-1991;
co-Chairman of the Board, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Group, Zurich, Switzerland, 1992-1996;
Chairman of the Board, Brown Boveri, Baden, Switzerland, 1992-1996;
Chairman of the Board, de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Company Ltd., Zurich, since 1996;
chairman, Le Temps, French Swiss daily newspaper, since 1998. Board directors Zurich Insurance, Nestle, Groupe Schneider, Paris, Electrowatt Engineering. Member European advisory board Bankers Trust, since 1992, European Roundtable Industrialists, 1994-1996.
Chairman Organization of European Cooperation and Development Trade Committee, chief negotiatorGATT, 1989-1991. Governor Switzerland Inter-American Development Bank, 1987-1988' Chairman of the Board MC Electricity Investment Company, since 1997.
