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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Colonel Peter Schneider
Professor for Security Policy
College of International and Security Studies

Colonel Peter Schneider, a career Army officer in the Swiss Armed Forces, has been a Professor for Security Policy in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies since April 1, 2004.

COL Schneider’s expertise is in civil-military cooperation and European security policy issues from the perspective of a small, neutral country. He is also highly experienced in the design and conduct of training sequences and exercises at the operation level, and was from 1998-2006 the deputy exercise director and designer for a series of multinational computer-assisted exercises for peace enforcement and peace support operations run by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Prior to his work at the Marshall Center, COL Schneider was a project manager in the Swiss Army planning directorate from 2001-2004. He was responsible for several long-term planning projects, including Army After Next and Swiss Armed Forces XXI, for which he defined the overall structure of the armed forces and designed the future planning directorate and the joint staff. He was also responsible for defining the function of the Land Component Commander of the Armed Forces.

From 1993-2000 he was deputy chief of staff of the strategic and operational training directorate, responsible for training the joint command staff of the Swiss Armed Forces. During this time he also served as chief of staff of a logistics and territorial division from 1996-1998, and as commander of a logistics regiment from 1992-1995. In 1992-1993, he was deployed as the first commanding officer of the Swiss Medical Unit during the deployment and first phase of the UN Mission in the Western Sahara (MINURSO). From 1991-1992 he was a teacher and seminar leader at the Swiss General Staff College.

In his first military assignments, before becoming a career soldier, he commanded an infantry company from 1976-1980 and an infantry battalion from 1984-1986.

Prior to becoming a career officer, COL Schneider was managing director of Beringer Hydraulics in Zug, Switzerland from 1988-1990. From 1973-1988 he was an assistant vice president and division head for Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in Winterthur, Switzerland. During this time, from 1978-1980, he also worked as manager of the diesel engine division for Sulzer Brothers Ltd. Japan in Kobe, Japan. He was a surveyor for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping in London from 1972-1973.

COL Schneider attended the Marketing for Leaders post-graduate seminar at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1986. He attended the NATO Defense College in Rome in 1994 and the 140e Session Régionale de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) in Nancy, France in 2000. He received his Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1971.

Last updated: July 23, 2008