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  • Picture of all the participants on the steps of the Bernerhof. (State Department Photo)

    Sister Republics Women's Conference closes

  • Actor Geena Davis speaks at the 2013 Sister Republics Women's Conference

    Sister Republics: Building Bridges - Committing to a Stronger Economy with Women's Leadership begins in the historic Bernerhof building in Bern

  • From left to right: Megan Beyer, Lisa Feldmann, and Ambassador Beyer (State Department Photo)

    Lisa Feldmann, delegate of the 2013 Sister Republics Conference and Editor-in-Chief of Annabelle Magazine, was the 3rd Recipient of the “Women and Children First Award”

  • Geena Davis, Academy Award winning Actor and Founder, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (State Department Photo)

    The 2013 Sister Republics: Building Bridges women's conference opens from the Bellevue Palace Hotel at a press conference featuring Actor Geena Davis

  • Megan Beyer, Irene Natividad and Susan Elbow (lower right) celebrate the opening of the Swiss Stock Exchange. (Photo courtesy of Cristoph Dill)

    U. S. Embassy Sister Republics’ delegation Opens Swiss Stock Exchange in Zurich

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  • George Church, Harvard Medical School’s Director, Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, discuss his research with Swiss scientists (State Department Photos)
    Harvard Genetics Professor George Church visits Bern
    Bern, Switzerland (May 4, 2013)
    Ambassador Beyer and Megan Beyer hosted Harvard Medical School Genetics Professor George Church for a lively coffee discussion with leading Swiss medical and genomics researchers.
  • Celebrating Press Freedom Day with Lucy A. Dalglish (State Department Photo)
    Celebrating Press Freedom Day with Lucy A. Dalglish
    Bern, Switzerland (April 30, 2013)
    In the run up to International Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, U.S. Embassy Bern invited Lucy Dalglish, Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland since August 2012.  
  • from left to right: Martin Naville, CEO of AmCham, Ambassador Beyer and Harry Hohmeister, Chairman and President of the AmCham (Photo courtesy of AmCham)
    AmCham bids farewell to Ambassador Beyer

    Hotel Restaurant Storchen - Zürich (April 25, 2013)
    The Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce held a farewell dinner event for Ambassador Beyer at the Hotel Restaurant Storchen in Zürich.

  • From Left to Right: Governor Madeleine Kunin, Sylvie Durrer and Megan Beyer. (State Dept Photo)
    Sister Republics begins with commitments
    The Sister Republics: Building Bridges 2013 Women's Conference begins with a request for commitments
    Megan Beyer opened the 2013 Sister Republics Women’s Conference 
    Bernerhof Federal Building - Bern Switzerland (April 23, 2013)
    The Sister Republics: Building Bridges 2013 Women's Conference began with a request for commitments.  Megan Beyer opened the 2013 Sister Republics Women’s Conference.
  • Lisa Feldmann, Editor-in-Chief of Annabelle Magazine (Lisa Feldmann)
    Embassy awards “Women and Children First Award”
    Bern, Switzerland (April 22, 2013)
    Lisa Feldmann, delegate of the 2013 Sister Republics Conference and Editor-in-Chief of Annabelle Magazine, was the 3rd Recipient of the “Women and Children First Award”
  • From the FBI field office in Manhattan (State Department Photo)
    Swiss Police Officials visit New York FBI Field Office
    New York City, New York (April 15-17, 2013)
    U.S. Embassy Bern’s Legal Attaché Mike McGarrity led a 30+ member delegation from the Association of Swiss Police Executives to attend a three-day lecture series hosted by the FBI at its Manhattan Field Office.
  • From left to right: Mary Louise Serrato- ACA Executive Director, Ambassador Don Beyer, Megan Beyer and Jackie Abrams ACA Director (State Department Photo)
    Ambassador Beyer Awarded the 2013 T. Jefferson Award
    U.S. Department of State (March 26, 2013)
    American Citizens Abroad present Ambassador Donald S. Beyer, Jr. with the Thomas Jefferson Award for his outstanding services to U.S. citizens in Switzerland 
  • Ambassador Donald S. Beyer Jr outlined to Rémy Chétalat (right), Editor in Chief of “Le Quotidien de Jura” his impressions of his trip to the Canton of Jura. (State Department Photo)
    Ambassador Beyer visits the Canton of Jura
    Canton of Jura, Switzerland (March 18, 2013)
    Ambassador Beyer visited Jura where he met members of the management of GLOBAZ, one of the leading IT service providers in Western Switzerland, the school in Les Breuleux and the daily newspaper “Quotidien de Jura”. 

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