Meet the team
The CAS ETH PGA is delivered by an experienced team and a distinguished network of lecturers and practitioners, combining academic knowledge with the rich experience of professionals working in governance across various sectors.
Your programme team
The programme is led by an interdisciplinary team at ETH Zurich responsible for its academic direction, organisation and continuous development. They ensure a high-quality learning experience and provide close support for students throughout.
Professor Robert Perich
Professor of Practice
Programme Director
Academic Director SSPG
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Dr Ladina Rageth
Executive Director SSPG
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Alba Martinez de Trevino Sans
Programme Manager
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Lecturers & guest speakers
The CAS ETH PGA brings together leading experts from academia, government and the private sector. Their diverse professional backgrounds offer both academic perspectives and practical insights into contemporary governance challenges.
Participants engage directly with lecturers and guest speakers, gaining insights across sectors, countries and institutional contexts.
Professor Stefano Brusoni
Vice Rector for Continuing Education & Professor of Technology & Innovation Management
ETH Zurich
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Professor Dirk Helbing
Professor of Computational Social Science
ETH Zurich
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Professor Isabel Günther
Professor of Development Economics
ETH Zurich
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Professor Michael Siegenthaler
Adjunct Professor of Economics
ETH Zurich
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Professor Vally Koubi
Professor of Humanities, Social & Political Sciences & Senior Scientist at the Center for Comparative & International Studies (CIS)
ETH Zurich
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Dr Martijn Sonnevelt
Executive Director of the World Food System Center
ETH Zurich
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Professor Tobias Schmidt
Professor of Energy & Technology Policy
ETH Zurich
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Professor Lint Barrage
Associate Professor of Energy & Climate Economics
ETH Zurich
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Professor Ursula Renold
Professor of Education Systems
ETH Zurich
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Professor Robert Perich
Professor of Practice & Academic Director of the Swiss School of Public Governance
ETH Zurich
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Professor David Kaufmann
Associate Professor of Spatial Development and Urban Policy
ETH Zurich
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Alice Richard
Sustainability Catalyst
Co-CREATE ImpACT
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Professor Kuno Schedler
Professor of Public Management
University of St. Gallen
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Dr Claire Somerville
Lecturer of International Affairs & Executive Director of the Gender Centre Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
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Eveline Hügli
Head of Audit Domain (EAER / ETH)
Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO)
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Professor Thomas Gächter
Chair of Constitutional, Administrative, & Social Security Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law
University of Zurich
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Dr Jack Williams
President of the Institute for Global Negotiation, Consultant for UNITAR & Adjunct Professor
Sciences Po Paris
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Professor Oliver Kessler
Professor of Public & Nonprofit Management & Head of the International Office of the Lucerne School of Business
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts
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Professor Oliver Neumann
Associate Professor in Public Management
University of Lausanne
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Professor Nils Soguel
Professor of Public Finance at the
Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP)
University of Lausanne
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Professor Marianne Schmid Mast
Professor of Organizational Behaviour
University of Lausanne
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Professor Mirko Winkler
Professor of Urban Public Health
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
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Patricia Danzi
Director General
Swiss Development & Cooperation (SDC)
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Michel M. Liès
Chairman
Zurich Insurance Group
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Tim Enderlin
Head of the Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD) of the Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
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Benedikt Wechsler
Head of Digitalization
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
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Andres Sutt
Former Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology
Government of Estonia
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Pascale Baeriswyl
Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York
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Urs Berger
President of the Board
Die Mobiliar
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Danny Buerkli
Co-director and co-founder
Staatslabor
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Professor Ernst Hafen
Professor at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
ETH Zurich
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Christine Häsler
Education and Culture Director
Canton Bern
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Walter Kielholz
Honorary President
Swiss Re
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Manuel Sager
Former Ambassador and Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
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Professor Frank Schimmelfennig
Professor of European Politics
ETH Zurich
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Professor Bernd Scholl
Professor Emeritus of Spatial Development
ETH Zurich
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Professor Johan Six
Professor of Sustainable Agroecosystems at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences
ETH Zurich
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Professor Sarah M. Springman
Former Rector of ETH Zurich and Professor for Geotechnical Engineering
ETH Zurich
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Dr Daniel Stauffacher
Former Ambassador of Switzerland and Delegate of the Swiss Federal Council
Founder and President of the ICT4Peace Foundation
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