Secretariat

René Schegg joined IFSW as Policy and Communications Officer in October 2008. He increased his IFSW working hours to 70 % of full time from November 2009. He is the first point of contact following the retirement of the former Secretary General and pending the eventual appointment of a new chief executive following the IFSW General Meeting in June 2010.

René has a Master in Educational Studies with minors in social ethics and psychology. He has work experience in Argentina and Germany in addition to in his native Switzerland. René also holds another part time post as scientific collaborator in didactics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. In addition to his native language German, René speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. He is also a trained computer administrator.

René has been working in project coordination of e-learning at the Universities of Zurich and Basel for three years. Before that he was involved in social work in Argentina and Switzerland, including work with disadvantaged children and young people, and served in the Swiss section of Amnesty International.