Short CV

Christian Suter, born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1956, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (since 2003). He studied sociology, ethnology, and social and economic history at the University of Zurich, where he also earned his Ph.D. in sociology (1988). In the context of research conducted for his habilitation he was visiting scholar at the Colegio de México (1995). In 2000 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany), and between 1996 and 2002 he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Christian Suter has been a member of the board of the World Society Foundation since 1999, and its president since 2008.

Christian Suter’s research activities focus on global debt crises in the world-economy, economic globalization, social and political transformations in Latin America, social inequalities, deprivation and poverty in Switzerland, social indicators and social reporting, social support and health as well as on science and technology studies. He has published several books and numerous articles and received publications awards in Germany and the United States.

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