Heinz Krummenacher received his MA (1982) and PhD (1985) in political science from the University of Zurich. He started his professional career with the Swiss Defence Department where he directed a study group dealing with the re-definition of Swiss security policy (1985-1989). Between 1990 and 1992 he served as foreign editor with the Swiss daily newspaper "Der Bund". Before joining swisspeace in 1998 he was head of the social research and media department at IHA-GfK, a leading market research institute (1992-1998). At swisspeace he was head of the early warning program FAST International (1998 to 2008) and is, since 2001, a member of the directorate. In addition, he is the CEO of the BEFORE project.