Members of the board

Jean-Philippe Amstein, Director

Jean-Philippe Amstein has been Director of the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) since 1st January 2006.
He was born in 1952 and was brought up in Chailly, near Montreux. He received the rural engineering and land surveying diploma of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne before becoming a licensed surveyor. In 1980 Jean-Philippe Amstein became an assistant in the office of the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying; in 1995 he was appointed Section Manager and in 1999 Head of the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying within swisstopo. He was appointed Deputy Director of swisstopo in 2001 and in November 2002 he became Head of the Topography Division. Jean-Philippe Amstein was a member of the steering commitee for the official cadastral survey reform project, and since 2005 he has been chairman of the steering committee of the e-geo.ch programme.

Adrian Wiget, Head of Geodesy Division

Adrian Wiget became Head of Geodesy Division in 2006. He was born in Schwyz in 1956 and grew up there. He gained the rural engineering diploma of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 1980 and became a licensed surveyor in 1982. Until 1986 he was the scientific assistant to the Chair of Geodesy and Geodynamics at the Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry of ETHZ. After joining swisstopo in 1987, Adrian Wiget was responsible for the introduction of satellite geodesy and GPS and was project manager for the development of the new national geodetic survey, LV95. Between 2000 and 2006 he headed the Geodetic Developments and Contracts Section and since 2000 he has also been Manager of the Research and Development / Projects Competence Centre. Adrian Wiget is Treasurer of the Swiss Geodetic Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (sc¦nat).

Dr. André Streilein, Head of Topography

Dr. André Streilein became Head of the Topography Division in 2006. He was born in 1962 and was brought up in Westphalia. He gained his diploma as a survey engineer at the University of Bonn in 1990. He was then a senior assistant at the Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry at ETH Zurich until 1998, and in that year he also completed his doctorate at ETH. In 1999 he became an assistant professor in the Geodesy Department of the Technical University of Delft. André Streilein joined swisstopo in 2000 as a photogrammetric engineer. He is the Swiss National Delegate to European Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR) and a member of the Council of the Swiss Society of Photogrammetry, Image Analysis and Remote Sensing (SGPBF).

Olaf Forte, Head of Cartography

Olaf Forte was named Head of the Cartography Division in August 2008. He was born in 1964 in Iserlohn in Germany and received his cartographic training at the Land Survey Office in Northrhein-Westphalia. After earning his cartography diploma and gaining first professional experience at the Technical Institute in Munich, Olaf Forte joined Kümmerly + Frey in Switzerland in 1992. Until 1999 he assumed various line functions and was a member of the management board. From 1999 to 2007 he was head of the Profit Center at Ringier Print in Zofingen, and project manager at Swissprinters. In 2008 Mr Forte was head of steering and development of the product acquisition at Swiss Post.

Dr. Fridolin Wicki, Deputy Director, Head of the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying

Dr. Fridolin Wicki was appointed Head of the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying in 2005.
Since 1st February 2006, he also is acting as Deputy Director.
He was born in 1964 and was brought up in Aarau. He gained the diploma as survey engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1990 and became a licensed surveyor in 1992. From 1992 until he joined swisstopo in 2000, Fridolin Wicki was Deputy Surveyor of Aargau Canton. Since 2000 he is managing the Competence Centre for geospatial data and national survey framework (LV95) , and between 2003 and 2005 he was responsible for the process "General Management of cadastral surveying".

Alain Buogo, Head of Coordination of geographic information and geographic information systems (COGIS)

Alain Buogo is head of the Federal Coordination Centre for Geographical Information (COGIS/KOGIS/COSIG) which was fully integrated within swisstopo in 2006, when he also became a member of the swisstopo Management Board. [From his original appointment in 2000 until the end of 2005, KOGIS was only administratively affiliated to swisstopo.] Alain Buogo was born in 1965 in Porrentruy (Jura Canton) and grew up in Grolley (Fribourg Canton). He received the rural engineering and land surveying diploma of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1991. He became a Master of Sciences at Laval University (Quebec, Canada) in 1995 and a Master of Public Administration at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) in Lausanne in 2004. Alain Buogo has worked as a lecturer at EPFL and for eight years he was responsible for GIS projects in a private sector geographical information company where he was also on the board of directors.

Dr. Marcel Jäggi, Head of Finances and Logistics

Dr. rer. pol. Marcel Jäggi is Head of the Support Division since 2006. He was born in1962 in Bern where he also grew up. He completed his studies at the University of Bern in 1991 where he gained a Doctorate in Business Sciences. He worked as an authorised signatory with the Schweizerischen Volksbank (People’s Bank of Switzerland) before coming to swisstopo in 1997. As Head of Accounting he initially shaped the basic principles of operational accounting for the new FLAG organisation swisstopo. Since 2001 he has represented the Finances and Logistics Division on the Board of Management and has led the Competence Centre Marketing and Public Relations. After completing his post graduate studies in "Public Management"at the University of Bern he assumed the leadership of the centralised Support, which includes Controlling Services, Management Assistance, Human Resources, Accounting and Logistics. At the Federation level he heads the Forum as Controller of the FLAG Administration units (BEFLAG).