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David Syz
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The Businessman: Broad experiences in the Private Sector
After his studies at the law school of the University of Zurich David Syz earned a MBA at the INSEAD in Fontainebleau. He started his professional career in 1973 as Management Assistant at the Union Bank of Switzerland. In 1975, he moved to the Electrowatt Group where he was active for a period of 20 years: first he was appointed Head of Finance at Staefa Control System AG, Staefa, and became Managing Director after four years. From 1982 to 1984, he was also Chief Executive Officer of Cerberus AG, Männedorf. In 1985, David Syz returned to the Headquarters of Elektrowatt as Member of the Executive Board and Head of Industries and Electronics Division. In 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft Holding AG (SIG), Neuhausen, a stock-listed corporation active in the packaging industry. Presently he is chairman of the board of directors at Huber und Suhner AG, a stock-listed corporation in the field of connectors for electronic applications and he chairs the Climate Cent Foundation, an organization mandated by the Swiss Government to reduce CO2 emissions in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol . He is member of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse.
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The Statesman: Responsible for the Foreign Economic Policy of Switzerland
After 25 years in the private sector, David Syz was asked by Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin to become the Director of the newly created State Secretary for Economic Affairs. In this function David Syz was responsible for the Foreign Economic Policy of Switzerland and involved in negotiations all over the world particularly in the field of Trade, Development, and Foreign Direct Investments. Having discovered that the level of knowledge about these global issues is generally quite low David Syz decided to share his knowledge with a broader public.
The Filmmaker: Documenting economical aspects of the globalized world
In 2004 David Syz returned in the private sector but is spending a great deal of his time on making documentary movies about various facets of the global economy.
His first project was about global trade, its impacts on directly and only marginally involved countries, on jobs and welfare in the developed and developing world and about the functioning of the system in place.
His second movie deal with the fight against poverty. How can poverty be eradicated in a more efficient way, since more than a billion of people still live with less than a dollar a day in spite of the significant efforts made by the world community in the last decades.
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