Education and work experience
Trainings
Certificates in political science and international relations
University of South Africa, UNISA
1989
- 1993
Ph.D. in Educational sciences
University of Paris-Sorbonne / Paris V, René Descartes
1989
Work experience
Member of the Sub-Committee on prevention of torture
Head of the Regional Team for Europe, in 2019 and 2020
Elected for a new term at the SPT 2021-2024 in October 2020
Elected Vice-chair for external relations, February 2021.
Reelected Vice-chair for external relations, February 2023.
youtu.be/o-TMB7zaxaM
Conférence for the 20 years of OPCAT/15 years of SPT
At 11'20 till 19'00
2018
- 2024
the international prison photo project
the portuguese prison photo project
1st exhibition in Porto, 2017
2nd exhibition in Lisbon, 2019
3rd exhibition in planning, in Lisbon, 2021, opening on 19 October 2021
4th exhibition in planning in Portimao, 2023
consult: www.prisonphotoproject.ch/en/pppp-en.html
watch: prisonphotoproject.pt/fr/review.html
the swiss prison photo project
1st exhibition in Berne
consult: prisonphotoproject.ch/de/ppp-ch-de.html
watch: youtube.com/watch?v=9yR4io3nwa8
Associate member of the Ecole des sciences criminelles ESC UNIL
2019
Suisse
Lecturer at the University of Lucerne UNILU
2014
- 2022
International expert on sanctions enforcement and crime statistics
Mandates in Belgium, Slovakia, Tunisia and Portugal
2012
Head of section
Senior Researcher in the fields of crime and mobility statistics
Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel
2011
- 2016
Lecturer at ESC UNIL
2011
- 2019
Head of Section
Department of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel
1996
- 2010
Research assistant and deputy of the secretary general
Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern
1994
- 1995
Delegate
Delegate visitor of prisons; head of desk Irak-Iran at the headquarters in Geneva; assistant to the ICRC President
International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
1987
- 1994
Others activities
Section public statistics of the Swiss statistical society
President
Participant in the organisation of the Swiss Statistics Meetings
Co-organiser of training days on themes relating to official statistics
2015
Swiss Group of Criminology
Board member
Co-organiser of the Annual Congress of the SGC
Co-editor of numerous volumes of the Conference Proceedings
Regular contributor to the Swiss Journal of Criminology, now the New Journal of Criminology and Crime Policy
prisonresearch.ch
President, gefo.ch
European Society of criminology
Member and auditor
2010
