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The long-serving president of the KOF's Sponsoring Association, Ueli Dietiker, has resigned. His successor is Stefan Nünlist. In addition, two new members were elected to the Executive Board of the SGK.

KOF is pleased to welcome Professor Hans Gersbach as a new member of its Directorate. Gersbach and Professor Jan-Egbert Sturm form the new top management of KOF.

Together with the Federal Statistical Office, KOF is making central economic data for Switzerland available on opendata.swiss. An important step for economic research and teaching in Switzerland.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy is changing faster than usual. To capture these changes, a group of researchers has developed a set of economic indicators based on Google search trends.

Ursula Renold has been appointed Full Professor of Education Systems by the ETH Board. This was decided by the Board at its meeting on 11-12 December 2019. She will take up her new position on 1 January 2020.

Dr Martin Wörter was awarded the title of professor by the ETH Board at its meeting of 13/14 December 2017 in response to the proposals received from the President of ETH Zurich, Prof Lino Guzzella.

Die NZZ hat ihr neues Ökonomen-Ranking veröffentlicht, das sich aus den Kategorien «Forschung», «Medien» und «Politik» zusammensetzt. Angeführt wird die Rangliste von Verhaltensökonom Ernst Fehr (Universität Zürich), gefolgt von Politikökonom Reiner Eichenberger (Universität Fribourg). An dritter Stelle steht Jan-Egbert Sturm, der in den Kategorien «Forschung» und «Medien-Zitate» auftrumpfen konnte.