American Swiss Foundation

The American Swiss Foundation is a private non-profit foreign policy organization headquartered in New York. It was founded in 1945[1] "to preserve and strengthen the historic friendship between the United States and Switzerland".[2]

Conference

The main program of the American Swiss Foundation is a Young Leaders Conference, held annually in Switzerland since 1990. Conference alumni now number more than 1,300 leaders in both countries from business, government, the media, and academia.[3] Among notable alumni are Foundation Chairman Robert J. Giuffra, Jr., U.S. Senator John Barrasso, and former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory.[4]

References

  1. ^ "American Swiss Foundation". NNDB. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. ^ "About Us". American Swiss Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. ^ Burkhalter, Didier (2012-11-13). ""American Swiss Foundation - Young Leaders Conference" - Statement by Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter". American Swiss Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  4. ^ "Alumni in Leadership Positions". American Swiss Foundation. Retrieved 27 August 2017.



  1. ^ "U.S. Embassy Bern Hosts American Swiss Foundation's Young Leaders". U.S. Embassy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  2. ^ Lanz, Martin (2016-10-17). ""Ich werde zum Aufräumen geholt" | NZZ" (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  3. ^ "Building new free trade alliances". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  4. ^ Marie-Astrid Langer, Palo Alto. "Alphabet-Präsident Hennessy ermahnt nächste Generation". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-07.