Ambassador Dr. Thomas Greminger, Director of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) and former Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):

Ambassador Greminger is currently the director of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP). He assumed this position on May 1, 2021. Before that, he held the post of OSCE Secretary General from July 2017 to July 2020 and was from 2010 to 2015 the permanent representative of Switzerland at the OSCE, the UN and international organizations in Vienna. He was previously Head of the Southern Cooperation Division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

As director of the GCSP, he pays special attention to the security dimensions of technology and the connections between climate change and security and is an effective supporter of crisis management. As Secretary General of the OSCE, he introduced a "fitness" agenda aimed at adapting the OSCE to changing realities and new opportunities with limited and diminishing resources, and facilitated dialogue among the 57 participating states of the OSCE. 

Ambassador Greminger holds a PhD in History from the University of Zurich and serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Swiss Armed Forces. He is author of numerous publications on military history, conflict management, peacekeeping, development and human rights.

This event is organised as part of the Carl Lutz Lecture series by the Andrássy University and the Embassy of Switzerland in Hungary.