At various times, he was a member of UN, WHO, UK and French advisory boards and Swiss committees on drug dependence, clinical trial methodology, patient and physician compliance, quality of life methodology and complementary medicine.
He testified last week before a Swiss parliamentary committee about the bank's role.
Oskar Lafontaine, the party's left-wing chairman, will speak on finance.See article: German Social Democrats' new teamA Swiss historians' committee said that Switzerland's central bank and its insurance companies took large deposits of gold from Germany during the second world war, even though they knew much of it had been stolen from the central banks of countries occupied by Germany.
True, there's probably a Swiss-chard committee at work right now, around some kitchen table in Greenpoint, plotting to do for Swiss chard what they did for kale, so we can look forward to Swiss-chard chips and smoothies and salads.
Antonella Notari, spokeswoman at the Geneva headquarters of the Swiss-based committee, said the toll could rise.
Approval was also obtained from the relevant Swiss Canton ethics committee.
All experiments and procedures were conducted under the agreement of the Swiss animal welfare committee (Geneva Cantonal Veterinary Office registration number 1051/3890/2).
To make the point, the American Red Cross last month withheld $5 million in membership dues from the Swiss-run international committee and $350,000 more from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which cares for disaster victims.
Referring to the US department of justice-led FBI raid on the Fifa executive committee's Swiss hotel, and the Swiss investigation into Fifa, Dyke said recent events had been "appalling" for Fifa.
"At the moment, the chairman of the ethics committee is Swiss, the chair of the disciplinary committee is Swiss.
And a committee representing Swiss bankers and Jewish organisations, awkwardly called the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons, is directing audits that will, among other things, try to determine what records have been destroyed.
