1979 - 1982 St. Gallen School of Economics, St. Gallen, Switzerland 1990 INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France: MBA

  Fondation Auxiliaire du Conservatoire botanique de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, Member of the Board, Treasurer Fondation Dr Henri Dubois-Ferrière Dinu Lipatti, Geneva, Switzerland, Member of the Board Fondation Hoffmann, Morges, Switzerland, President Fondation Jan Michalski pour l'écriture et la littérature, Montricher, Switzerland, Secretary of the Board Fondation MAVA, Gland, Switzerland, President Fondation pour l’art musical, lyrique et chorégraphique, Opéra de Lausanne, Switzerland, President Fondation Prince Albert II of Monaco - Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland, Member of the Board Fondation Pro Valat, Basel, Switzerland, Chairman of the Board Fondation Tour du Valat, Arles, France, President Givaudan Foundation, Vernier, Switzerland, President of the Board of Trustees INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, Member of the Board Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland, Member of the Board Peace Parks Foundation, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Member of the Board Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, Member of the Board of Trustees World Economic Forum, Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, Member of the Board of Trustees WWF International, Gland, Switzerland, Vice President