Charles Kleiber (9 December 1942 – 13 January 2025) was a Swiss government official who served as a state secretary.

Life and career

Educated as an architect at EPFL (1968), he worked as a consultant in hospital architecture during the 1970s. In 1981, he became director of the

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the de ...

department of the canton Vaud. He submitted a PhD thesis on the topic of the impact of economic incentives on performance in medical care in 1991 at the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; ) in Lausanne, Switzerland, was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second-oldest in Switzerland, and one of the oldest universities ...

(published as ''Questions des soins'' with Payot, Lausanne, 1991). Kleiber was appointed director general of the university hospitals of Lausanne in 1992. In 1997, he became State Secretary for Education and Research, at the time part of the

Federal Department of Home Affairs The Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA, , , , ) is a department of the federal administration of Switzerland and serves as the Swiss ministry of the interior. Since 2024, it is headed by Federal Councillor Élisabeth Baume-Schneider. Or ...

, where he remained until his retirement in 2007. He opted to sign the

Bologna declaration The Joint Declaration of the European Ministers of Education convened in Bologna on 19 June 1999 is the main guiding document of the Bologna process. It was adopted by ministers of education of 29 European countries at their meeting in Bologna in 1 ...

for Switzerland, against the resistance of the Swiss university rectors, initiating the controversial

Bologna Process file:Bologna-Prozess-Logo.svg, 96px, alt=Logo with stylized stars, Logo file:Bologna zone.svg, alt=Map of Europe, encompassing the entire Bologna zone, 256px, Bologna zone The Bologna Process is a series of ministerial meetings and agreements b ...

of university reforms. Kleiber died on 13 January 2025, at the age of 82.

References

Sources

*Pierre-Yves Donzé
Kleiber, Charles (1942-)
Dictionnaire du Jura (2005, 2007)

External links

biography
at International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kleiber, Charles 1942 births 2025 deaths Swiss civil servants Swiss architects Federal Department of Home Affairs