ZHdK Rector Meier announces his resignation
Thomas D. Meier has announced his resignation as Rector of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) at the end of September 2022. By this time, the content of the major study reform project Major-Minor initiated by Thomas D. Meier will have been finalized and will be implemented.
Born in Basel in 1958, Thomas D. Meier worked as a research assistant at the University of Bern and in public relations and as a member of the museum management team at the Bernisches Historisches Museum. From 1996 to 2003, the doctor of history and English was director of the Museum of Communication in Bern, and in 2003 he was elected director of the Bern University of the Arts.
He was President of the Conference of Swiss Universities of the Arts from 2004 to 2011, President of the Rectors' Conference of Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences in 2013 and 2014 and a member of the board of the swissuniversities association, which was responsible for preparing the future joint Rectors' Conference of Swiss universities. Thomas D. Meier was elected Rector of the Zurich University of the Arts by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Council in December 2008 and is currently in his third term of office.
