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Andreas Kyriacou

Andreas Kyriacou

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  • president
  • head of science activities

In his work life, Andreas Kyriacou is a consultant for knowledge management. He grew up in England, Cyprus and Switzerland and studied clinical linguistics in Potsdam and Groningen and Business Administration at the British Open University. From 2015 till 2017 he attended the University of Zurich’s Master of Applied Science programme in applied ethics and wrote his thesis on the question whether prisoners should be granted access to assisted suicide services.

He is the founder of the science festival Denkfest and of Camp Quest Switzerland.

Valentin Abgottspon

Valentin Abgottspon

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  • vice president
  • head of politics
Vice-president of the Swiss Freethinkers, departmental guarantor responsible for politics, and president of the Wallis section. Born 1979, vice-president, teacher, ritual companion, author. Valentin Abgottspon studied German philology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg. From 2006 to October 2010 he was a secondary school teacher in the Wallis municipality of Stalden. Together with other freethinkers, he founded the Wallis section and became the section's president. In October 2010, he was fired from his job without notice because he campaigned for secular education and refused to hang a crucifix in his classroom. In the meantime, the provincial court has judged the dismissal to be unlawful. He is a publicist and lectures nationally and internationally and often takes part in debates. He's an architect of the ritual accompaniment scheme and an active ritual companion, involved, in particular, with marriages and funerals.
Manuel Gehrig

Manuel Gehrig

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  • vice president

Verantwortlich für Marketing & Kommunikation/PR, und heisst neue Mitglieder willkommen.

Sandra Hiltmann

Sandra Hiltmann

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  • secretary
  • head of rituals

Sandra Hiltmann
Actuary
Head of Department Rituals

Sandra Hiltmann, since 2022 responsible for rituals and member of the board of the section NWS.
Born 1966 in Basel, happily married, two adult children, originally mechanical engineer HF, humanist celebrant.

After becoming aware of the Giordano Bruno Foundation in Germany, she was looking for an association in Switzerland that represents the values of evolutionary humanism and is committed to rationality and above all the secularization of the state.
The training offered to become a humanist celebrant also appealed to her.
This is how she found the Freethinkers Association of Switzerland and since then she is involved as a member, since 2020 as a board member of the section NWS and since 2021 as a central board member of the FAS.

She helps with the organization and implementation of Camp Quest and through her many years of experience in the distribution of craft products, she designs the respective camp t-shirt with the kids.
In 2020, she completed the FAS humanist celebrant training and has been conducting farewell, wedding and welcome ceremonies ever since.
In 2022 she then took over the department of rituals and now also organizes the training of the humanist celebrants.

Sonja Stocker
Sonja Stocker

Sonja Stocker

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  • head humanism activities

With the exception of a brief shamanic detour in her teens, Sonja Stocker has been religion-free since birth. This makes her all the more interested in ethics and science, and especially in the question of how the various functions of religions for society can be replaced by a contemporary worldview without the intervention of a higher power.
She has been a member of the Central Board since May 2023. Prior to that, she was Co-President of the Zurich Section from 2018 to 2019, and since its transformation into a regional group, she has remained an active member of the Zurich Core Group.
Sonja Stocker is an environmental engineer ETH and works professionally in the field of natural hazard prevention.

Sebastian Münkel

Sebastian Münkel

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  • head humanism activities

Der Chemieingenieur ist bereits seit einigen Jahren Mitglied der Freidenker-Vereinigung und hat im Frühling 2022 die Leitung der neu gebildeten Regionalgruppe Aargau übernommen (vorher Sektion Mittelland). Seit November 2022 engagiert er sich auch als Vorstandsmitglied auf nationaler Ebene für die FVS. Als ausgebildeter Sterbebegleiter mit sehr vielfältiger Vorstandserfahrung bei jSRK, SAJV, Greenpeace etc. kann er diverse Kompetenzen unterstützend ins Team einbringen.

Marc Moser

Marc Moser

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  • editor frei denken
  • head of politics

Marc Moser ist Politologe, war für Medien, in der Verwaltung und seit sieben Jahren in der politischen Kommunikation für Verbände tätig. Aktuell ist er Leiter Kommunikation beim Schweizerischen Städteverband. Geboren am 18. November 1978 in Biel, aufgewachsen im Seeland, wohnhaft in Bern.

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Philippe Moser

Philippe Moser

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  • auditor
Peter Schmid

Peter Schmid

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  • auditor

Born 1956, divorced, one grown-up son. I have supervised mandates for the KESB Bern since 2009, and I am on the committees of two inner city societies in Biel. I am a member of the Federal Democratic Party and president of the over-forties Society of Swiss Parachutists. I have been on the citizens' advisory counsel for the Biel local authority since 2015. I left the congregation of Biel's Reformed Church with firm conviction in December 1997.