Pia Kasper is the new Sawi director

Pia Kasper is to become the new Director and Chair of the Sawi Management Board. The Sawi Association Board elected her unanimously at its meeting on Wednesday, according to a press release. Kasper will take up her new position on October 15, 2006. She will be based at the Sawi headquarters in Biel. She succeeds Jürg Engi, Sawi's director of many years, who left the operational management at the end of April. Georg Stoller took over as Chairman of the Executive Board on an interim basis.

Kasper, 50, was previously the principal of the Swiss Technical College STFW in Winterthur. There she was responsible for 180 employees. According to the press release, Kasper has an impressive track record as a training specialist. She also has in-depth knowledge of current education and training policy at national and international level.