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Chairperson-in-Office of the  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2014–2014); Vice president of the Swiss Confederation (2013–2013); Member of the Swiss Federal Council (2009–2017); Member of the Swiss Council of States (2007–2009)."},{"q":"Where did Didier Burkhalter study?","a":"Didier Burkhalter was educated at University of Neuchâtel."}],"related":[{"name":"Adolf Deucher","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-deucher"},{"name":"Adrien Lachenal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adrien-lachenal"},{"name":"Johann Schneider-Ammann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-schneider-ammann"},{"name":"Jonas Furrer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jonas-furrer"},{"name":"Philipp Etter","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/philipp-etter"},{"name":"Johann Jakob Scherer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-jakob-scherer"},{"name":"Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/eveline-widmer-schlumpf"},{"name":"Kaspar Villiger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kaspar-villiger"},{"name":"Moritz Leuenberger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/moritz-leuenberger"},{"name":"Pascal Couchepin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pascal-couchepin"},{"name":"Doris Leuthard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/doris-leuthard"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/didier-burkhalter-febfc8ee24.jpg","width":500,"height":334,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Hannes Thalmann","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44._St.Gallen_Symposium_2014-Der_Schweizer_Bundespr%C3%A4sident_Didier_Burkhalter_bei_seiner_Er%C3%B6ffnungsrede-HSGH_022-002338-01.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Didier Burkhalter","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Burkhalter","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q58280","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58280","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: 44. 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