Alumni
Past SSPG Alumni Events
SSPG alumni profit from a unique network of people from the public sector, para-state institutions and NGOs. To provide their alumni with the possibility of a continuous exchange among each other, the SSPG organises different alumni events. In addition, the SSPG also acts as direct mediator in case of specific contact requests of former participants.
Past SSPG Alumni Events
3 September 2025
International Trade
Presentation by Prof. Manfred Elsig, Deputy Managing Director of the World Trade Institute
28 August 2024
Digital Governance
Presentation by Andres Sutt, Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology of Estonia
31 August 2023
Switzerland at the UN Security Council: Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation by Ambassador Thomas Gürber, Head of the UN Division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
30 August 2022
Development cooperation and humanitarian aid in the context of the war in Ukraine
Presentation by Ambassador Patricia Danzi, Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
1 September 2021
How to Promote Dialogue in a Polarized Political Climate
Presentation by Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and former Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
25 January 2021
Big Lessons from Small Nations
Guest lecture by Mr. R. James Breiding, author of «Swiss Made – the Untold Story of Switzerland's Success» and «Too Small to Fail - How some Small Nations are Reshaping the World»
10 September 2019
The Lebanese Model of Consociational Democracy and its Foreign Policy Implications
Guest lecture by S.E. Mme Rola Nourredine, Ambassador of Lebanon to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
29 March 2019
The Mordern War
Presentation by Dr. Bruno Lezzi, Swiss military historian, former NZZ journalist on security and military policy and lecturer at University of Zurich
11 September 2018
The Role of the EU as a Global Actor
Presentation by Michael Matthiessen, former EU Ambassador to Switzerland
23 March 2018
Open Switzerland quo vadis?
Presentation by Tiana Angelina Moser, Member of the Swiss Parliament, Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (GLP)
23 November 2017
Approaches from Switzerland, the EU and the UN on migration
Presentation by Ambassador (ret.) Eduard Gnesa
14 September 2017
The power of the State: More necessary than ever
Presentation by Dr. Katja Gentinetta, political philosopher and advisor
12 April 2017
On Swiss - EU Relations
Presentation by Ambassador Urs Bucher, former Swiss Ambassador to the European Union
7 April 2016
Public Diplomacy in Washington
Presentation by Ambassador Martin Dahinden (ret.), former Swiss Ambassador to the US.