Top diplomat becomes columnist for Sunday newspaper
Jakob Kellenberger, the long-time president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a leading Swiss diplomat, is launching his own column: Starting September 2, 2012, he will be writing exclusively for the international section of the *Sonntagszeitung*.
Kellenberger writes weekly personal viewpoints on international, European and humanitarian issues. "Jakob Kellenberger knows the world's most important trouble spots and many heads of state from his own experience and is better placed than almost anyone else to make independent assessments of political developments in the countries that are currently in the spotlight," says Martin Spieler, Editor-in-Chief of the Sonntagszeitung. The new column by Jakob Kellenberger is intended to give readers access to well-founded analyses. For the same reason, the Sonntagszeitung has had an exclusive partnership with the British news magazine The Economist (the advertising week reported).
Jakob Kellenberger was ICRC President from 2000 to 2012 and previously held management positions in the Swiss diplomatic service for many years. From 1984 to 1992, he was head of the Integration Office of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA and the Department of Economic Affairs. From 1992 he was State Secretary and Head of the Political Directorate of the FDFA, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Switzerland's chief negotiator at civil servant level in the transit negotiations with the EC. Between 1994 and 1998, he was Switzerland's coordinator and chief negotiator in the bilateral negotiations with the European Union.
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