Martin Schmid

Martin Schmid   ( politician)
Born	24 May 1969  Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of St. Gallen
Party	The Liberals (Switzerland)
Swiss politician who attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.

Martin Schmid is a Swiss politician who attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

From 1991 he studied law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and graduated in 1995. During his studies he became a member of the student association Swiss Zofingerverein. He was admitted to the bar in 1997 and received his doctorate in law in 2005.

Career

From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Finance and Financial Law at the University of St. Gallen. From 2000 to 2002 he was an independent lawyer with a focus on tax and financial law and also worked part-time for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

From 1994 to 2002 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden (Grisons). On March 24, 2002, he was elected to the Governing Council of the Canton of Graubünden as of January 1, 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he headed the Department of Justice, Security and Health. He was the president of the government in 2007. From January 1, 2008, he headed the Department of Finance and Municipalities. In the parliamentary elections of 23 October 2011, Schmid was elected to Council of States (federal parliament) and resigned his mandate as a government councillor. He was re-elected in the elections of 2015, 2019 and 2023.

Other positions

In addition to his position as a Member of the Council of States, he has been working as a lawyer at the law firm KUNZ SCHMID Rechtsanwälte und Notare AG in Chur since 2012. He is also a member of the boards of directors of numerous companies, for example Swiss Life, Calanda Group (President), Engadiner Kraftwerke (President), Repower AG, Elettricità Industriale (President), the Association of the Swiss Gas Industry (President), Swissgas, Siegfried Holding AG (Vice President) and others. He is a member of the Management Board at Economiesuisse, President of the Swiss Development Association and President of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Finance and Financial Law (IFF) at the University of St. Gallen.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2011	9 June 2011	12 June 2011	Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz	59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland WEF	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	Switzerland WEF	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	Switzerland WEF	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	Switzerland WEF	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	Switzerland WEF	1911 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	Switzerland WEF	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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