New head of communications for the FDP
Effective February 1, 2015, Georg Därendinger will become the FDP’s communications director. He will succeed Pia Guggenbühl, who will be leaving the General Secretariat at the end of the year.
In this role, he will head the Communications Department within the General Secretariat as of that date and serve as the point of contact for German-speaking media professionals. Georg Därendinger, 34, studied journalism, organizational communication, and European studies. While still a student, he worked at Swisscom as an editor in corporate communications. He then joined Sunrise as a communications specialist responsible for internal communications. He later worked as a manager of communications strategy and public affairs at BKW before joining the FDP’s General Secretariat as a political secretary in 2012. In this role, he will continue to oversee policy issues in the areas of energy, telecommunications, transportation, the environment, and land-use planning until the end of January 2015.
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