Team Alliance Sud

andreas.missbach>at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 31 390 93 30

Director Andreas Missbach is a historian, he has written a dissertation on United Nations climate policy, and from 2001 to 2021 served the Berne Declaration/Public Eye in various fields, most recently as a Joint Managing Director and Head of the Department for Commodities, Trade & Finance.

Assistant to the Director

kathrin.spichiger<at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 31 390 93 30

Kathrin Spichiger is a founding member of WIDE Switzerland. She originally set up the Alliance Sud Head Office and has helped in setting up the Max Havelaar Foundation. She has training as a primary school teacher and management assistant.

Policy fields:

Development Policy

kristina.lanz<at>alliancesud.ch / Telefon: +41 31 390 93 40

Kristina Lanz is a member of the Advisory Committee on International Cooperation and represents Alliance Sud in the OECD-DAC CSO Reference Group and the Reality of Aid network. She holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Berne and previously worked at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Berne and as a consultant for Mokoro in the field of land rights, gender and mining in Tanzania and Mongolia.

laura.ebneter<at>alliancesud.ch / Telefon: +41 31 390 93 32

Laura Ebneter is a geographer and has collaborated in numerous projects of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern since 2015. In addition, she provided scientific support to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Switzerland and gained professional experience in Tanzania and Kenya.

Trade and Investments

isolda.agazzi<at>alliancesud.ch / Telephone: +41 22 901 07 82

Isolda Agazzi is responsible for "Trade and Investments" and the media in the french-speaking part of Switzerland. Besides she is also a journalist with twentiy years' experience in bilateral and multilateral organizations and NGOs, focus on Switzerland and North Africa. She holds a master's degree at IHEID.

Business and human rights

laurent.matile<at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 22 901 14 81

Laurent Matile previously worked for Seco, was then a member ot the board of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, worked with the IDEAS Center and the UN/WTO's Center for international trade. He is teaching law at HEG (Geneva) und holds a degree and the lawyer's diploma from the Neuchâtel university. LL.M. European Legal Studies (Exeter).

Finance and tax policy

dominik.gross<at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 31 390 93 35

Dominik Gross is a member of the steering committees of ICRICT (Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation) and the Platform Agenda 2030. He represents Alliance Sud in the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and publishes on global inequality and the knowledge history of economics, he is associated with the Institut Neue Schweiz (INES).

Climate Policy

delia.berner<at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 31 390 93 42

Since September 2022, Delia Berner has been responsible for international climate policy at Alliance Sud. As a political scientist, she has already dealt with the UN climate conventions on numerous occasions. In her master's thesis, she examined Switzerland's agricultural trade policy towards three developing countries for its consistency with the goals of sustainability. Most recently, she was Specialist on Europe in the International Affairs Directorate of the State Secretariat for Migration.

Media and Communication

marco.faehndrich<at>alliancesud.ch / Phone: +41 31 390 93 34 (office), +41 79 374 59 73 (mobile)

Marco Fähndrich is responsible for communications and media and represents Alliance Sud in the association real21. A political scientist and journalist, he previously worked for SDA/ATS, Helvetas in Mozambique, Greenpeace Switzerland and ProjektForum. He holds a MAS in Development and Cooperation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (NADEL).