McKay Interview - on World Radio Switzerland

In this week’s McKay Interview Michael speaks to Antoine Hubert and Anna Gräbner.  He is the Founder and Chairman and she is the CEO of the Genolier Innovation Hub.  We talk about medical technology innovation in Switzerland and why it is so groundbreaking; the benefits of “bench to bedside” med tech innovation; and why the best in the world of hea

On this week's McKay Interview, Michael speaks with Pamela Coke Hamilton, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, based in Geneva. It's a multilateral agency which has a joint mandate with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations (UN) through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The ITC works to help businesses in

This week, Michael's guest is former Swiss diplomat, Jean Daniel Ruch. In his early career during the 1990s, he worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. From 2003 to 2007 he was the political advisor of the UN Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal’s prosecutor. He's also been the Swiss ambassador to Israel and Turkey. You can f

In this week’s McKay Interview, Michael's guest is the Ambassador of the European Union to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Petros Mavromichalis.  Talking in Bern last November, the two covered a range of topics including the current status of negotiations between the EU and Switzerland; why talks seem to take so long and what are the sticking points; why economic gro

In this week’s McKay Interview  - recorded in mid-november 2024 – Michael's guest is Honorary  Ambassador Jean-Arthur Régibeau, until very recently Belgium’s man in Washington, D.C. and before that in Moscow, He is a professional diplomat of long experience. They discuss among many things his observations of the differences between Europeans,

In this week’s McKay Interview Michael's guest is the State Secretary in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Alexandre Fasel. They discuss a wide range of topics including the war in Ukraine, Switzerland’s good offices, what neutrality means in 2024 and the progress of Swiss/European Union negotiations.  

In this week’s McKay Interview Michael's guest is Dame Stephanie Shirley, known affectionately as Dame “Steve”.   She is one of the UK’s most  distinguished philanthropists; an outstanding  information technology pioneer, entrepreneur and businesswoman; and one of a dwindling number of  child refugees saved by the Kindertransport in

Michael's third and final guest on the US election. Daniel Warner, an American (also Swiss), an academic, a political scientist who has been invited to give a disinterested analysis of what happened, why it happened and where America is going. Dr. Daniel (Danny) Warner was for many years the Deputy to the Director of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Stud

Michael's second of three guests on the US election is Ed Flaherty, a prominent, American – and now naturalised Swiss – lawyer who is well-known amongst the international community and who has lived for a long time in Geneva but visits the USA often. He's a member of the Republican party  

In this week’s interview Michael's guest is well-known British writer, journalist, biographer and professor of history, Dr. Simon Heffer. We discuss the current state of the United Kingdom, its politics and economics, 103 days after its recent General Election, which brought the Labour Party to power, for the first time in 14 years, with a huge majority.