Director and Head of International Relations at the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET)

Franziska Schwarz is Director and Head of International Relations at the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET) which is the federal competence centre for upper-secondary level vocational education and training, tertiary-level professional education and training, universities of applied sciences and innovation promotion. Prior to this position, she gained five years of experience at the innovation promotion agency CTI as a Head of Department. Her areas of expertise are all of OPET’s fields of activity regarding the Swiss international integration as a cross-cutting theme.

Franziska Schwarz holds a PhD of Engineering Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH).