{"id":335927,"date":"2017-07-12T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335927"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:14:02","slug":"swiss-president-to-speak-at-imani-event-tonight-live-on-citi-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335927","title":{"rendered":"Swiss President to speak at IMANI event tonight, live on Citi FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, will\u00a0give a speech tonight, Wednesday, July 12, ahead of an event organised by policy think-tank IMANI Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The speech, which will be delivered from the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra, will be live on radio from 6:30pm and online\u00a0at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/citi973\">http:\/\/tunein.com\/citi973<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Leuthard&#8217;s address will precede a panel discussion\u00a0on the theme \u201cGovernance in the age of social media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The event will also feature contributions from the Vice President of IMANI, Kofi Bentil and Jemima Nunoo, a senior lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration\u00a0(GIMPA).<\/p>\n<p>Interested persons can also follow IMANI on Facebook at<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Imani Center for Policy and Education\u00a0and on\u00a0Twitter<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>@imaniafr. with the hashtag\u00a0#ImaniSwissEvent<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMANIPresident.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335929\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMANIPresident.jpg\" alt=\"imanipresident\" width=\"688\" height=\"688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Swiss President Doris Leuthard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old studied law at the University of Zurich, and became a partner in a law firm before entering parliament as an MP for the canton of Aargau in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently the\u00a0longest-serving member of the current Federal Council<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Leuthard became the third woman in Swiss history to become President and the first from the Swiss-German region. She also speaks French, Italian and English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: EdwinKwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, will\u00a0give a speech tonight, Wednesday, July 12, ahead of an event organised by policy think-tank IMANI Africa. The speech, which will be delivered from the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra, will be live on radio from 6:30pm and online\u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/tunein.com\/citi973. Doris Leuthard&#8217;s address will precede a panel discussion\u00a0on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,2876,1505],"class_list":["post-335927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-imani","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}