Director Philipp Metzger leaves OFCOM
Philipp Metzger, the Director of the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), will become Secretary General and CEO of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). He will take up this position on February 1, 2020.
Metzger joined OFCOM in 2007 as vice director and became deputy director in 2012. After an assignment at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2013, the Federal Council appointed him Director of OFCOM as of January 1, 2014. In this role, his main focus was on the development of the media, public service, telecommunications and postal services. Under his leadership, in addition to technical and sectoral dossiers, OFCOM also took care of the coordination of digitization in Switzerland.
With his involvement in the IEC, the leading standardization organization for electrical engineering and electronics, Philipp Metzger remains connected with digitization. He thus continues his previous international activities and functions within and outside OFCOM.
Philipp Metzger will step down as OFCOM director at the end of January 2020. DETEC will advertise the position. If no successor has been appointed as of February 2020, Deputy Director Philippe Horisberger will head the office on an interim basis. Horisberger has worked at OFCOM since 1993 and has been its deputy director since 2014.
