Schwarz Erich

Erich Schwarz took up his position as Communications Officer at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern and also the NCCR Trade Regulation in September 2011. After graduating with a degree in Communications Studies (minor in Political Science) from the University of Zurich in 2006, he carried out various marketing projects within academia at the ETH Zurich and the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS). His love of film and close connection to the Zurich Film Festival led him to join the festival management for two years in a row. He has also organized workshops at the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMCS) of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and was honoured with a Swiss Baltic Net scholarship award from the Gebert Ruef Foundation for his research into the integration of Russian speaking people in Estonia.