The Adolphe Merkle Foundation

In late 2007, Adolphe Merkle set up the Adolphe Merkle Foundation and donated CHF100 million to support the University of Fribourg. The donation is primarily being used to establish the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and to maintain the support of Frimat, but also to support other areas such as a Chair of Innovation Management and Technology Transfer, the Institute of Multilingualism, and a prize worth CHF 500,000, which will be awarded every three years in recognition of outstanding scientific, cultural, social, or business achievements.

• Members of the Foundation Board
  • Peter Huber (President)
    Administrator, Sublevo AG, Kloten, Switzerland
  • Prof. Rolf Mülhaupt
    Former Director of the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry and Executive Director of the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF), University of Freiburg (Germany)
  • Prof. Claude Regamey
    Former chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cantonal Fribourg, former President of the Ethical Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
  • Chantal Robin 
    Former Director of the Fribourg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Jean-Pierre Siggen
    Canton Fribourg Finance Minister
  • André Broye (Managing Director)