New head of communications at the FOPH
Regula Weyermann has been appointed as a member of the Executive Board and will take over as head of the Communications and Campaigns Department at the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) effective immediately. She succeeds Urs Pfenninger, who stepped down from this position on March 31, 2010.
At the FOPH, Regula Weyermann will lead activities in media relations, information and awareness campaigns, publications and electronic media. Her portfolio also includes internal communications and crisis communications, the federal office announced Monday. In addition to her work as head of department, she will also head the Communications Section.
Until she took up her post, Regula Weyermann worked as an independent communications consultant. At the globally active maintenance company SR Technics, she was responsible for corporate and marketing communications as Senior Vice President and member of the extended Executive Board until 2008. Prior to that, she was a Director and Senior Consultant at the PR agency Burson-Marsteller, where she advised international companies on communications issues. As a member of the Executive Board, she was responsible for corporate and marketing communications at Schweizer Radio DRS. From 1996 to 2002, she headed Corporate and Marketing Communications for the listed Kuoni Group. She began her professional career as a journalist, including as foreign editor of the SDA and as correspondent for the Berner Zeitung in Geneva. Regula Weyermann (1960) studied languages (D/E/F/I) at the University of Geneva and trained as a journalist at the Media Training Center Maz. She subsequently obtained an executive MBA from the University of St.Gallen and trained to become a federally certified marketing manager.
