Graduated in business administration (HEC Lausanne): 1 year in the foreign department of a bank: documentary credits; 2 years as managment consultant with an US company; 17 years of experience in insurances (Switzerland); 4 years in Congo-Kinshasa as coffee-trader and transport; 2 years as logistics-officer with Swiss Humanitarian Aid: warehouse-manager in Darfur/Sudan (WFP-secondment), material-distribution in the earth-quake affected area of Pakistan (Kaghan-Valley, North-West-Frontier-Province)