Brigadier General Markus A. Mäder
Director of International Relations Defence

Brigadier General Mäder is Director of International Relations Defence in the Armed Forces Staff. He directs and coordinates armed forces relations at both bilateral and international levels. The Director of International Relations Defence is responsible for establishing the politico-military and legal conditions for training cooperation of the armed forces abroad, for international missions, and for relations with other armed forces. In addition, he is responsible for the implementation of arms control and disarmament policy as well as verification measures in Switzerland and abroad. He is also in charge of the Swiss defence attachés abroad and the Military Protocol.
2016 | Brigadier General, Director of International Relations Defence |
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2013 | Colonel General Staff |
2008 | Lieutenant Colonel General Staff, commander armoured battalion |
2006 | Operations chief of an armoured brigade |
2004 | Major General Staff, operations officer of an armoured brigade |
2000 | Captain, commander armoured company |
2015 | National War College, National Defense University Washington DC, USA |
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2011 | Swiss Defence Attaché to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, resident in Islamabad, Pakistan |
2010 | Defence Attaché training |
2007 | Deputy Military Representative, Swiss Mission to NATO, Brussels, Belgium |
2003 | Security Policy Adviser and Deputy Head of Forces and Armament Planning, Directorate for Security Policy, DDPS |
2002 | Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London, United Kingdom |
2001 | Operations Officer at battalion level, KFOR, Kosovo |
1997 | Research Assistant at the Centre for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich |
Documents
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CV Mäder Markus
17.03.2020 | PDF, 1 Pages, 63 KB