Guy Mettan
Guy Mettan, is a Swiss journalist and politician, member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, executive director and a founding member of the Geneva Press Club .[1][2]
As a journalist he started with Tribune de Genève as an intern[3] and was its director and editor-in-chief in 1992-1998.[2]
In 2001 he was appointed Vice-President of the Swiss-West African Chamber of Commerce and in 2005 of the Swiss-Russian Joint Chambers of Commerce.[2] In 2006 he was appointed President of the Geneva Red Cross.[1]
He served as President of the Grand Council of Geneva.[2]
Books
- 2004: Genève, ville de paix: de la Conférence de 1954 sur l'Indochine à la coopération internationale
- 2010: Guy Mettan, Christophe Büchi, Le dictionnaire impertinent de la Suisse
- 2014: Guy Mettan, François Bugnion, Jean-François Pitteloud, Serge Nessi, Philippe Bender, Serge Bimpag, 150 ans de passion humanitaire, la Croix-Rouge genevoise de 1864 à 2014, Genève, Slatkine, ISBN 9782832106044
- 2017: Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria
- 2016: (Italian language edition) Russofobia. Mille anni di diffidenza
Personal
Mettan is married. In 1994, the family adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, Oxana, from an orphanage in Suzdal. Later, Russian citizenship was granted to Mettan by Yeltsin administration.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "METTAN, Guy". TaxCOOP. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ^ a b c d "PIR Center". pircenter.org. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
- ^ a b Mettan, Guy, Creating Russophobia..., Foreword
- ^ Note: The Russian-language version of the book is slightly different here: "As a result [of the adoption] according to a law pased [sic?] during Yeltzin's times[clarification needed] I was granted Russian citizenship" (В результате, по закону, принятому при Ельцине, я получил российское гражданство. )