Christoph Wiedmer

From 1991 to 2006 Christoph Wiedmer worked as a campaign manager for Greenpeace Switzerland and a consultant for Greenpeace International. Since 2006 he has headed the Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland and is a board member of the Society for Threatened Peoples International. From 2015 to 2023 he was a member of the advisory board of the Swiss National Contact Point of the OEDC.

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