SWITCH's Management Board
 

Dr. Andreas Dudler, Managing Director

Since May 2012, Andreas Dudler has been managing director of SWITCH, with responsibility for the deployment of technology and the operation of SWITCH's services. Even before being appointed managing director, Andreas Dudler had been committed to SWITCH and the Swiss university landscape for many years, alongside his main job. As Chairman of the Foundation Management Board, he played a key role in the establishment and expansion of both the Education & Research Network and the Foundation from 1999 to 2011.

• In his main job, Andreas Dudler was most recently head of the full range of IT services at the ETH Zurich over a period of 15 years. In this post, he was responsible for the operation and further development of the complex IT environment and for around 180 employees.

• Andreas Dudler similarly began his academic career at the ETH Zurich: from 1976 to 1982 he studied mathematics, before gaining his "Dr. Sc. Techn. ETH" four years later. 

• Andreas Dudler is married, the father of three children and lives with his family in Bülach.