About

Christian Bühlmann, Ph. D.

Defence policy researcher
Berne Switzerland
ORCID record : 0000-0002-4566-3794

Dr. Christian Bühlmann is an Associate Fellow within the Global Fellowship Initiative of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He currently works as Regional Strategic Director at SICPA SA, a market leader in security inks for banknotes as well as a leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions. He has over 35 years of civilian and military experience.

Previously, he has been a career officer (Colonel, General staff) in the Swiss Armed Forces for more than 20 years. His last position was a decade-long secondment to the GCSP as Director, centre support and development (Chief of Staff) between July 2021 and February 2024. Previously, he led the Diplomatic Dialogue (2019-2021) and the Regional Perspectives Programme (2014-2018) at the centre.

Prior to this assignment, he gained extensive experience in the fields of defence policy and military policy and strategy as a senior advisor to the Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces. His previous positions include Head of Doctrine Research and Development (as a regular officer) and Head of Defence Sales in a major Swiss company (as a civilian).

Christian holds a Ph. D. in political science from the University of Lausanne (2023). His doctoral thesis is entitled « Acteurs et transformations de la politique de défense suisse (1948-2008) ». He is also a qualified Engineer in Computer Science (MSc equivalent) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (1988). In 2007, he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in international studies from King’s College London (2008).

Dr Bühlmann has lectured on global security, co-authored a book on Colonel Daniel Reichel, an original Swiss military thinker, and published numerous articles on military doctrine, strategy, defence policy and history.

He is president of the Société romande des armes spéciales (SRAS), one of the oldest military societies in Switzerland, and a member of the board of the Swiss Association for Military History and Science (ASHSM).

About this site

You should have a personal website not because you need to grow an audience, and turn your hobbyist writing into a profession.
You should have a personal website not because you’re an expert on some subject, and it would be cruel to deny the world your wisdom.
You should have a personal website not because you think you’re important.
You should have a personal website not because the world is in need of your highlight reel.
You should have a personal website because I think the online world is as real as the offline world. You have a presence in one, and you should have a presence in the other.

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I don’t normally translate texts, which are written either in French or in English.

I have created my first sites under compuserve and geocities in the mid 90. I then used site generators in the early 2000. This site originated in the mid 2000s. I switched from Joomla to WordPress at the end of 2022.

My favourite means of communication are described in Hello.

I have not yet taken the time to adapt the theme to limit the number of  my own photos and descriptions on each page, as well as to have the about page as home page. This annoys me much but it is  currently necessary in order to use Webmentions.

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This site is hosted in Switzerland by a host that is powered exclusively by certified renewable energy.
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I plan to apply the IndieWeb principle of POSSE – Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. My articles are written here and eventually posted elsewhere.

Disclaimer

This is my personal website. The opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer, the GCSP, or any associations of which I am a member.

This page is partly inspired by Cygnoir.