OREANDA-NEWS President Kersti Kaljulaid will today embark on a four-day working visit to Switzerland and Italy. During the visit she will give a presentation at the St. Gallen Symposium, an international management conference at St. Gallen University, and deliver a speech at the 2017 State of the Union conference in Florence.

The Head of State will also meet with leaders of various international large enterprises, the Minister of Economic Affairs of Switzerland, Johann Schneider-Ammann, and the European Union Chief Negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier.

During the visit to Switzerland, the Head of State will be accompanied by the Chairman of the Board of Enterprise Estonia, Alo Ivask, the Rector of the University of Tartu, Volli Kalm, the Director of the Estonian Genome Center of University of Tartu, Andres Metspalu, the Head of the Institute of Computer Science of University of Tartu, Jaak Vilo, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Tartu, Margus Lember, Bo Henriksson and Jukka Patrikainen from ABB AS, CEO of Roche Eesti OÜ, Kadri Mägi, and Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Ain Aaviksoo.