The Faculty of Economics of the University of Banja Luka is organizing an open guest lecture of Her Excellency, Ambassador of Switzerland to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mrs. Andrea Rauber Saxer, and discussion with students. We will also welcome Mr. Edin Dacić, Swiss businessman and owner of the furniture factory Standard, Prnjavor, who will present his experiences in doing business in the Western Balkans region. The lecture will be organized on Thursday, 28 March 2019, in Room 1, first floor, starting at 12:00.
Andrea Rauber Saxer is Swiss Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina since September 2016. Prior to this assignment, she worked as the Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the OSCE, the United Nations and the International Organizations. Within her area of responsibility, she closely followed the situation in the Western Balkans. Before joining the Swiss Mission in Vienna, Ms. Rauber Saxer served as the foreign policy advisor of two successive Presidents of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Hans-Peter Merz and Ms. Doris Leuthard. From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Rauber Saxer worked at the Swiss Civil Aviation Office where she coordinated the negotiations with Germany on Zurich airport. Previous assignments included negotiations with the European Union on the association of Switzerland to Schengen/Dublin, a posting to India and in the Division for Human Security Policy at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs where she followed, among other issues, the human rights situation in the Western Balkans. Ambassador Rauber Saxer is a lawyer by training. She worked briefly at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague (ICTY) and obtained her master’s degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with a thesis on the legal procedure of the ICTY. Ambassador Rauber Saxer is married and has three children.
Edin Dacić has been President of the Board of Administration of Standard doo Prnjavor from 2005. Since 2011 he is also President of the Assembly of Standard Furniture Serbia doo from Cuprija in Serbia. Both companies are supplying the world’s no 1 in the housing sector, the Swedish company IKEA. They employ together approximately 700 coworkers and belong to the Swiss company Daccomet AG from Zurich that was founded in 1990 by Mr. Edin Dacić. Besides his business engagement Mr. Edin Dacić is also a member of the steering board of the society i-platforma in Berne, member of the board of the SSCC (Swiss-Serbian Chamber of Commerce) in Belgrade and technical advisory board member of SIPPO (Swiss Import Promotion Organization) in Berne. Prior to this assignment, he was managing besides Daccomet AG joint-venture companies in Zurich and in Paris in the automotive sector. Mr. Edin Dacić holds a degree in Political Economy (International Relations) from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Mr. Edin Dacić is married and has two children.
Andrea Rauber Saxer is Swiss Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina since September 2016. Prior to this assignment, she worked as the Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the OSCE, the United Nations and the International Organizations. Within her area of responsibility, she closely followed the situation in the Western Balkans. Before joining the Swiss Mission in Vienna, Ms. Rauber Saxer served as the foreign policy advisor of two successive Presidents of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Hans-Peter Merz and Ms. Doris Leuthard. From 2005 to 2008, Ms. Rauber Saxer worked at the Swiss Civil Aviation Office where she coordinated the negotiations with Germany on Zurich airport. Previous assignments included negotiations with the European Union on the association of Switzerland to Schengen/Dublin, a posting to India and in the Division for Human Security Policy at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs where she followed, among other issues, the human rights situation in the Western Balkans. Ambassador Rauber Saxer is a lawyer by training. She worked briefly at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague (ICTY) and obtained her master’s degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with a thesis on the legal procedure of the ICTY. Ambassador Rauber Saxer is married and has three children.
Edin Dacić has been President of the Board of Administration of Standard doo Prnjavor from 2005. Since 2011 he is also President of the Assembly of Standard Furniture Serbia doo from Cuprija in Serbia. Both companies are supplying the world’s no 1 in the housing sector, the Swedish company IKEA. They employ together approximately 700 coworkers and belong to the Swiss company Daccomet AG from Zurich that was founded in 1990 by Mr. Edin Dacić. Besides his business engagement Mr. Edin Dacić is also a member of the steering board of the society i-platforma in Berne, member of the board of the SSCC (Swiss-Serbian Chamber of Commerce) in Belgrade and technical advisory board member of SIPPO (Swiss Import Promotion Organization) in Berne. Prior to this assignment, he was managing besides Daccomet AG joint-venture companies in Zurich and in Paris in the automotive sector. Mr. Edin Dacić holds a degree in Political Economy (International Relations) from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Mr. Edin Dacić is married and has two children.