Experience: Master’s Degree from Columbia University (New York) and PhD from Zurich University. Former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations (1999 - 2005), worked with UNFPA and UNDP in New York, Laos, China (1982 – 1990), with the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs and Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) ( http://www.seco.admin.ch ) responsible for Financial Co-operation with major Asian countries, including India and China and subsequently with Central and Eastern Europe, incl. instrumental in organizing the Luzern Conference "Environment for Europe” (1990 - 1995). Economic and Financial Counsellor, Swiss Mission to the EU, Brussels (1995 – 1999).

Ambassador and Special Representative of the Swiss Government (“Delegué du Conseil Fédéral Suisse”) for hosting and organizing the World Summit on Social Development (Geneva 2000) (http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/geneva2000/) and the World Summit on the Information Society 2003 ( http://web.archive.org/web/20040403164916/www.wsisgeneva2003.org/home.html) and Swiss Ambassador to the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis 2005.

Convenor on behalf of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) of the first UN Global Compact (http://www.unglobalcompact.org) Meeting in Switzerland in 2002: The UN Global Compact and Swiss Business: Making Global Responsibility Work for Business and Development, Palais des Nations, Geneva (http://r0.unctad.org/gcandswissbusiness). Member of former UN ICT Task Force (http://www.unicttaskforce.org) and UN Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICT for Development. Former President of Wisekey Switzerland SA, Geneva (2006 to 2007), a cybersecurity company.

Presently: Special Advisor to the UN Undersecretary-General of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA (http://www.un.org/esa/desa) for the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (http://www.un-gaid.org). Member of the Board of Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, Geneva. Member of the Board, Earth Council USA. Co-Founder and Executive Coordinator of the GenevaNetwork,Geneva (www.genevanetwork.net). Co-founder and President of the Geneva Security Forum, Geneva (www.genevasecurityforum.org). Founder of the ICT4Peace project and Chairman of ICT4Peace Foundation . Senior Advisor, Gulf Research Center Foundation,Geneva (www.grc.ae ). President, Dr. Daniel Stauffacher + Partner (daniel@stauffacherconsulting.ch).

Publications
Europäische Union: Vor einer neuen Erweiterung (Die Volkswirtschaft 1997, 6/18); Europäische Union: Beginn des Erweiterungsprozesses im Frühjahr 1998 (Die Volkswirtschaft 1998, 3/17); Elektronisches Geld und Finanzdienstleistungen im EU-Binnenmarkt - Chancen und Herausforderungen (Die Volkswirtschaft, 1998, 3/37); The Challenges of financial services on the Internet. AGEFI: Finance and Technology, April 1998; Arbeits- und Sozialnormen für das Global Village (Stephan Brupbacher und Botschafter Daniel Stauffacher, Die Volkswirtschaft, 1999, 11/20); Geneva 2000: Der nächste Schritt in der Weiterentwicklung der sozialen Dimension der Globalisierung (Die Volkswirtschaft, 2000, 6/6); Erster Weltgipfel über die Informationsgesellschaft vom Dezember 2003 in Genf (D. Stauffacher und Alain Modoux, Die Volkswirtschaft 2/2003); The First World Summit on the Information Society, Al-Siyassa, Egyptian quarterly periodical, December 2003, (Englisch); The United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva: A report (D. Stauffacher und T. Schneider, Die Volkswirtschaft 6/2004).

The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future , edited by Daniel Stauffacher and Wolfgang Kleinwächter, with and opening statement by Kofi Annan and preface by Yoshio Utsumi, UN ICT Task Force Series 8, New York. Information and Communication Technology for Peace. The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict , A Report by Daniel Stauffacher, William Drake, Paul Currion, Julia Steinberger, with a preface by Kofi Annan and a foreword by Micheline Calmy-Rey, UN ICT Task Force Series 11, New York, November 2005;

International Geneva: Thoughts for the Future, Blaise Godet and Daniel Stauffacher, September 2006.
International Geneva: Time for Action,  Blaise Godet and Daniel Stauffacher, August 2008.