Science-Policy Advisory Board

The Science-Policy Advisory Board advises the Executive Board and especially the President as well as the Vice-President for Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations on issues at the interface of science and policy. This board evaluates the work and activity of ETH Zurich at the interface to policymakers and makes recommendations for the further development of this area.

The Science-​Policy Advisory Board consists of the following members:

  • Kathrin Arioli, Zurich Cantonal Chancellor
  • Hannes Germann, President of the Association of Swiss Communes, Member of the Council of States of Canton Schaffhausen
  • Servan Grüninger, President of Reatch
  • Armin Grunwald, Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Head of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
  • Benedikt Knüsel, Head of the Science-​Policy Interface unit, ETH Zurich
  • Erika Laubacher-​Kubat, Head of the Strategic Management Support Section, Federal Chancellery
  • Bernard Lehmann, Chair of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the FAO, Chair of the Science and Policy Platform of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, former Director of the Federal Office for Agriculture, former ETH professor
  • Johannes Mure, Head of Strategy and National Relations, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
  • Robert Perich, Director of the Swiss School of Public Governance, ETH Zurich
  • Sonia Seneviratne, Associate Vice President for Sustainability, ETH Zurich
  • Andreas Wenger, Director of the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
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