Geopolitical Due Diligence

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In an increasingly unstable political environment and faced with an avalanche of information, often beholden to political or financial interest, independent geopolitical due diligence is of prime importance. Our briefings and explanation are solely based on direct experience with, and ongoing pursuit of, geopolitical facts.

Facts as we see them, not as involved parties would like them to be seen.

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Team

Our core-team consists exclusively of former Ambassadors who represent, and answer at any time for, the association Share-an-Ambassador, commercially registered under Swiss law.

Free from previous engagements, we speak and write in our own name only.

Former Swiss Ambassador to Iran · India

Philippe Welti

  • Expert on geopolitical and strategic affairs, regularly publishing and lecturing on Iran, the Middle East and India
  • Co-Founder of "Share-an-Ambassador / Geopolitical coaching"
  • Member of the London-based "International Institute for Strategic Studies-IISS"
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Professional career and education

Philippe Welti retired from the Swiss Diplomatic Service after accomplishing missions as ambassador to India (including Bhutan) and to Iran, where he was also in charge of the USA Protecting Power mandate. Prior to those two missions, Philippe Welti was, from 1998 until 2004, seconded to the Swiss Defence Ministry in Berne in the capacity of Political Director with the rank of ambassador. In that position, he was in charge of strategic affairs, security policy and the minister’s international relations and he represented the minister at NATO Ministerial Conferences as State Secretary. Earlier diplomatic postings abroad included Bonn (Germany) as Deputy Chief of Mission, London and New York.

Philippe Welti, a Swiss national, was born 1949 in Zurich, served in the Swiss Armed Forces as an infantry officer (First Lieutenant), studied in Zurich and Paris, holds two university degrees of the University of Zurich and, since retiring from diplomatic service, lives again in Zurich. He is married and has three adult children.

Former Swiss Ambassador to Kuwait · Singapore · Australia

Daniel Woker

  • Expert on strategic affairs, regularly publishing and lecturing on the Asia-Pacific, including the ASEAN and Australia, on the Gulf countries as well as the development of the EU
  • Co-founder and President of 'Share-an-Ambassador/Geopolitical coaching'
  • Former Senior Lecturer at the University of St.Gallen/HSG on the nexus between the private and public sector and on the impact of geopolitics on business
  • Independent columnist on foreign affairs in Swiss web publications
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Professional career and education

Daniel Woker retired from the Diplomatic Service after having served as Ambassador in Australia (including the Melanesian islands), in Singapore (including Brunei) and in Kuwait (including Bahrain and Qatar). Prior to these missions Mr. Woker was first and founding director, with the rank of Ambassador, of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy GCSP. Earlier diplomatic postings included Deputy Chief of Mission in Paris, in Stockholm and as economic officer at the Swiss UN mission in New York. At home office he accomplished missions as development cooperation officer in the Foreign Trade Division, including desk-duty for the Asian Development Bank, and as Deputy Head of the European Division during the crucial transition period of 1989-93 where he was responsible for the first aid packet for Eastern Europe and for crisis management during the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.

Daniel Woker, a Swiss national, was born 1948 in Zurich and studied law and international relations there, in Geneva and in the US. He holds a PhD (Dr. iur.) in international law from the University of Zurich. Before joining the Swiss Foreign Ministry, he worked as an auditor for then PMM, now KPMG in Geneva. He served in the Swiss Armed Forces as a First Lieutenant of the mountaineering infantry. He is married, has two adult children and lives on the Thunersee and in Locarno.

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