Biography
Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, a former Ambassador of Switzerland, is a founder and President of the ICT4Peace Foundation, which since 2003 explores, champions the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for peace-building, crisis management, and humanitarian aid, and supports diplomatic processes for peaceful and open cyberspace. He has a Master’s degree from Columbia University, New York, and a Ph.D. in media and copyright law from the University of Zürich. After managing a Swiss publishing company, he joined the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1982 and worked in New York, Laos, and China. In 1990 he joined the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs (Bawi) and in 1995 he was posted to the Swiss Mission to the European in Brussels. From 1999 to 2005 he was the Swiss Ambassador and the Swiss Federal Council’s Special Representative for the hosting and preparation of the World Summit on Social Development Plus 5 in 2000 in Geneva and the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which was held in Geneva in 2003 and Tunis 2005. He was a member of UN SG Kofi Annan’s UN ICT Task Force and a Co-Chair of the Global Alliance for ICT for Development (GAID) and a Founder and President of the Geneva Security Forum. He is a founding Trustee of Sir Tim Berners Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation.
Since 2007 he served as an advisor to the Swiss, Swedish, and other Governments and to the UN Secretariat General and a number of UN organizations on improving the UN Crisis Information Management Systems (CiMS) for humanitarian, peace-keeping, and peace-building operations. He has also been an Advisor to several Governments, the UN, OSCE, OAS, AU, and ASEAN on International Cyber Security Policy, Diplomacy, and Capacity Building and has co-launched with the UN the Tech Against Terrorism Project. He is the President and Founder of the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) He has been invited to speak and moderate discussions at numerous global conferences and published in these emerging fields. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Internet and Society and the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP). Dr. Daniel Stauffacher is President of Dr. Daniel Stauffacher + Partner, a consulting firm based in Switzerland that helps build partnerships for innovation among governments, international organizations, civil society, and private-sector entities
Since 2007 he served as an advisor to the Swiss, Swedish, and other Governments and to the UN Secretariat General and a number of UN organizations on improving the UN Crisis Information Management Systems (CiMS) for humanitarian, peace-keeping, and peace-building operations. He has also been an Advisor to several Governments, the UN, OSCE, OAS, AU, and ASEAN on International Cyber Security Policy, Diplomacy, and Capacity Building and has co-launched with the UN the Tech Against Terrorism Project. He is the President and Founder of the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) He has been invited to speak and moderate discussions at numerous global conferences and published in these emerging fields. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Internet and Society and the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP). Dr. Daniel Stauffacher is President of Dr. Daniel Stauffacher + Partner, a consulting firm based in Switzerland that helps build partnerships for innovation among governments, international organizations, civil society, and private-sector entities
