Ueli Minder

Ueli Minder is the drug policy coordinator in the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. He studied zoology, psychology, chemistry, and physiology at the University of Bern. He has a diploma in education and has also studied psychology, philosophy and religion, including Buddhist psychology and philosophy in India and Nepal. He established and managed an in-patient drug-rehabilitation institution near Bern and a drug-prevention program for schools in the Canton of Bern. Mr Minder has also taught communication skills, social competence, and drug prevention as part of post-graduate training for teachers in the Canton of Bern and social psychology in the training program for nurses.

He has been a consultant for health education and health promotion in schools in the Department of Education of the Canton of Berne, has published a brochure on drug prevention for young people, and was a representative for substance abuse and health promotion in the Department of Health and Social Welfare of the Canton of Bern.