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1978 - 1983 Bachelor and Master in Food Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) |
| 1983 - 1986 Master of Business Administration at the University of Zurich | |
| 1986 - 1989 Doctoral Thesis at the University of Fribourg in Operations Research with the focus on Decision Analysis | |
| 1990 - 1997 Scientific officer and from 1993 - 1997 information officer at the National Emergency and Operations Centre in Switzerland | |
| 1997 - 2001 Head of the section -University affairs- at the State Secretariat for Education and Research (Federal Department of Home Affairs) | |
| since 2001 Professor for Business Administration at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology; Chair of -Performance Management- and director of the Executive MBA programm of the Faculty | |
| since 2008 president of the scientific advisory board of the Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the Swiss Universities (OAQ) | |