23.11.2005 – 15:20

WISekey recruits Daniel Stauffacher to lead its Public Sector and International Organizations division

WISekey expands  the activities derived from WISekey's participation
at the latest World Summit on Information Society

Mr. Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador, State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs/WSIS Swiss Executive Secretariat has
accepted WISekey's invitation to join as President of WISekey
Switzerland and to take the position of Vice President Public Sector
and International Organizations for WISeKey SA. Daniel Stauffacher
will assist WISekey in promoting the eID project launched at WSIS and
to reinforce the global partnership lead by WISekey and OISTE
Foundation to expand the use of Digital Identification as part of the
WSIS "Pledge to Connect the World" with the aim of increasing digital
connectivity to 1 billion people by 2015.

Daniel Stauffacher (b 1953), former Ambassador, State Secretariat 
for Economic Affairs has a Ph.D. in law  from the University of
Zürich and a Master's degree in International Economic Affairs from 
Columbia University. After working for the  Swiss private sector, he
joined UNDP in 1982 and worked in New York, Laos and China. He joined
the Swiss Federal Office for Economic Affairs in 1990, where he was
in charge of Financial Co-operation with Central and Eastern Europe.
In 1995, he was posted to the Swiss Mission to the European Union in
Brussels as Counsellor for Economic and Financial Affairs. In 1999,
he became Ambassador and the Swiss  Federal Council's Special
Delegate to the preparation of the Special Session of the United
Nations General Assembly on the Follow-up to the World Summit for
Social Development (Geneva, July 2000). Ambassador Stauffacher was in
charge on behalf of the Swiss Government of the preparation of the
World Summit on the Information Society that was held in Geneva in
2003.

Further information:   info@wisekey.com or  www.wisekey.com

Contact:

Daniel Ybarra
Director of Corporate Communications
E-Mail: info@wisekey.com

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