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Dr. Fred TANNER, DIRECTOR Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva

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 Ph.D. and Master Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and Bachelor Degree from the University of Geneva
 Deputy Director of the GCSP, in charge of Academic Affairs and Training, Visiting Professor for Swiss Security and Foreign Policy at the Graduate Institute for International Studies (GIIS/HEI) of the University of Geneva and responsible for the University's Programme for Diplomatic Studies
1994-1997 Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC), Malta
since 2006 Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
2007 Title of Ambassador from the Swiss Federal Council
 teaching and research positions at such universities as Harvard (CFIA), Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), and Princeton (CIS)
 Serving in the Mountain Troops of the Swiss Armed Forces, he concluded his military career as a Major in the General Staff of the Army

Publikationen

numerous publications, including:
1993 From Versailles to Baghdad, United Nations
2001 The EU as a Security Actor in the Mediterranean, ETH Zurich
2002 Refugee Manipulation, co-editor, with S. Stedman, Brookings
July 2005 a "Chaillot Paper", with H. Haenggi, Promoting security sector governance in the EU's neighbourhood
2006 The Iraq Crisis and World Order, United Nations University Press, co-author
Numerous articles in journals such as the Journal for Peace Research, International Peacekeeping, Mediterranean Politics, Civil War, and the International Spectator