Robert Scheidegger was appointed as of June 1 by Martin Pfister, the new head of the DDPS – the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport – as Deputy Secretary General of the DDPS. appointed. Since the beginning of May, Scheidegger has headed the newly organized Planning, Controlling, Digitalization, Security department at GS-VBD and will now also be responsible for Deputy Secretary General within the DDPS.
Between 1986 and 1993, Robert Scheidegger graduated from the Swiss Timber College in Biel as a Swiss certified master carpenter and as a TS timber construction technician. He subsequently completed various other training and further education courses, including an extra-occupational diploma in business administration in 2008, an Executive MBA with a focus on project management and negotiation in 2010, training as an IPMA assessor for the evaluation of projects according to the Project Excellence Model in 2011 and an MAS in Business Law in 2014.
He gained his professional experience from 1993 to 2003 as a self-employed person in his own timber construction company. In 2003, he joined the City of Bern as a technical noise protection officer. From 2006 to 2008, he was Managing Director of Tenta AG before moving to the Swiss Federal Audit Office in 2008 as an audit expert in the area of construction and procurement audits. As head of mandate, he was responsible for various supervisory and audit areas between 2010 and 2025. These included civil IT and, for the last two years, the DDPS.
“Due to the size, complexity and associated challenges for the department, the DDPS considers it necessary to reappoint a second Deputy Secretary General, as was already the case until the end of April 2020,” it said in a press release. This is also in light of the new administrative units created since 2024 – the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (BACS) and the State Secretariat for Security Policy (SEPOS) – and the associated additional management and coordination tasks for the General Secretariat.
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