Elisabeth Eckert Dunning joins Rochat & Partners

 After 25 years of experience in journalism, Elisabeth Eckert Dunning joined PR agency Rochat & Partners on April 1. She will become a partner at the Geneva office, which specializes in financial communications and crisis communications. Eckert Dunning has a degree in history and started her career in journalism at the newspaper La Suisse, for which she also worked as a correspondent in Zurich. This was followed by positions as business editor at L'Hebdo, Bilan and L'Agefi. In 1998, she was appointed head of the business section at La Tribune de Genève. In 2007, she additionally assumed responsibility for the business pages of 24 Heures. In parallel, she has been responsible for the business course at the Centre Romand de Formation des Journalistes (CRFJ) for several years.
Rochat & Partners has offices in Lausanne and Zurich in addition to its Geneva office. The agency has won several new mandates in recent months, including the Société des Régisseurs de Genève and the Centre Patronal in Vaud, as well as international companies such as Carmignac Gestion and Pimco, according to a statement.