Federal Council elects new president of the STSB
28.11.2024
On 27 November 2024, the Federal Council elected
Mr Gery Balmer
as the new president of the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB). He succeeds Pieter Zeilstra, who has headed the commission since 2017.
Gery Balmer studied science of forestry at ETH Zurich and has been working for the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) since 2002. He took over as head of the Policy Division in 2013 and has also been Deputy Director of the FOT since September 2023. He therefore has many years of management experience within the Federal Administration. For more than 20 years, he has been involved in the safe transport of people and goods and has extensive knowledge of the technical and operational requirements for the various modes of transport. Gery Balmer will end his employment with the FOT at the end of March 2025.