Martina Hirayama
 Martina Hirayama     (chemist, politician) | |
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| Born | 1970 |
| Residence | Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss, German |
| Alma mater | University of Fribourg, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London |
Swiss up-and-coming politician with a Bilderberg wind since 2019 | |
Professor Dr. Martina Hirayama is a Swiss academic. She attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019, the same year she became State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) of Switzerland.
Early life and Education
Martina Hirayama grew up in Germany and went to school there. She studied chemistry from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Freiburg and from 1991 to 1994 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). She completed her diploma thesis on polymers in 1994 at Imperial College London. She then returned to ETH Zurich, where she did her doctorate in 1997 at the Institute for Polymers on the "production and characterization of thin and ultra-thin layers on inorganic surfaces by oxidative addition and activation of chemically inert bonds" and worked as a research assistant.
Career= From 2001 she was in charge of the "Polymers on Surfaces" group at the Institute for Polymers. [1] Hirayama also completed a postgraduate degree in business administration - today called MAS in Management, Technology and Economics - at D-MTEC at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Hirayama focused on applied research and is involved in several patents. She founded a start-up for coating technologies and became a lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHAW), where she was director of the School of Engineering from 2011 and also took over the international department from 2014.
Hirayama was President of the Institute Council of the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology[2]; Vice President of the Board of Directors of the funding agency Innosuisse and sat on the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Martina Hirayama has been State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) since January 1, 2019. In this role, she heads 280 employees and is responsible for an annual budget of CHF 4.5 billion.
Martina Hirayama has had dual German-Swiss citizenship since 2009.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 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 | 1912 guests in Davos |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
