Switzerland

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 28 January 1949

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la Confédération (pour 2008): Son Exc. M. Pascal COUCHEPIN

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Rodolphe Imroof
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (designate)

Permanent Delegation of the Swiss Confederation to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M4.12 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.33.96
01 45 68 33 98
Fax: 01.43.06.21.39
E-mail: dl.suisse@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Présidente: Mme Francesca Gemnetti
Secrétaire générale: Mme Madeleine Viviani
Point focal UNESCO pour l'administration fédérale / Secrétaire général adjoint: Mr Nicolas Mathieu

Commission suisse pour l'UNESCO
Département fédéral des affaires étrangères Bundesgasse, 32 3003 BERNE SUISSE
Telephone: (41-31) 324.10.67
Fax: (41-31) 324.10.70
E-mail: madeleine.viviani-schaerer@eda.admin.ch; info@unesco.ch;
Web site: http://www.unesco.ch

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Jean Piaget	1950-1954	22-39
Member	Mr Bernard Barbey	1964-1969	69-83
Member	Ms Jeanne Hersch	1970-1972	84-90
Member	Mr Charles Hummel	1976-1980	101-110
Member	Mr Franz Muheim	1987-1991	128-137
Representative		1993-1997	143-152
Representative		2003-2007	168-177

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Executive Committee of the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo
  Member


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  President : Mr Walter Fust

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Committee on World Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Swiss educator Jean Piaget (September/December 1996).

Five hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Swiss writer Thomas Platter (1999).