ABOUT US: Who We Are Heiko Borchert (born in 1970) studied International Relations at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a research assistant at the Center for International Studies (CIS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was responsible for research on the OSCE and Europe's security architecture and for editing a series of papers. In addition to publishing his own articles, he lectures regularly (Universities of St. Gallen, Bern and Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Swiss Military Academy, Swiss General Staff School, German Armed Command and General Staff College, Federal College for Security Policy, Austrian Defense Academy), speaks at international conferences, is co-editor of a series of books on "Vernetzte Sicherheit" (Network Centric Security) and co-winner of the 2003 transatlantic essay contest sponsored by the Foreign Policy Associaton and the Richard C. Welden Foundation, and member of the advisory board of IPA Network International Public Affairs, Berlin, and affiliated with the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. In 1999, Heiko Borchert graduated from the University of St. Gallen with a Ph.D. study on Europe's security architecture. This project was part of a national research program on Switzerland's foreign policy sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The study was supported by the OSCE section of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While still a student at the University of St. Gallen, Heiko Borchert was involved in developing a management game, establishing a marketing degree course at a Swiss business school, and writing as a free-lance journalist for a Swiss management journal. Membership: Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), International Studies Association (ISA), Politisch-Militärische Gesellschaft e.V. (PMG), Schweizerische Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (SVPW)