As part of the conference "One War, Many Responses: The New Security Order in Europe and its Implications for Small and Middle-sized States", Andrássy University's Centre for Democracy Research is organising its next Carl Lutz Lecture. The invited speaker is Swiss Security Policy expert Dr Robert Diethelm.

In April 2023, Robert Diethelm was elected mayor of the municipality of Heiden, a beautiful resort in Appenzellerland, high above Lake Constance. He has been in office since June 2023.

Between 2013 und 2023, he served as Deputy Director of International Relations Defence at the Swiss Federal Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sport. In this period, he was also a member of the Council of Foundation of both the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), where he also served as member of the Bureau.

Robert Diethelm joined the International Relations Defence in 2006, after having worked for six years as Support Director with the GICHD. Prior to that, he was seconded for 11⁄2 years to the United Nations Mine Action Centre (UNMAC) in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997/98) and set up the Mine Action Unit within the Swiss Federal Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sport in Berne (1999/2000).

Between 2020 and 2024, Robert Diethelm was lecturer at the Andrassy University in Budapest, Hungary, for security policy. He contributes to security policy issues in Switzerland.

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The Carl Lutz Lecture series is organised within the framework of the Changing Orders Research Programme, a comprehensive project supported by the Swiss Contribution with the national co-financing of the Hungarian Government. The Swiss Contribution is a programme launched by the Swiss Confederation to support the Member States that joined the European Union since 2004. The programme, which has entered its second period in 2022, aims to reduce economic and social disparities in the EU, and to strengthen bilateral relations between Switzerland and the beneficiary EU Member States.