Aargau Board of Trustees under new management
Cinema specialist Daniel Waser has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the Aargau Board of Trustees. He succeeds music expert Peter Erismann, who has taken over the management of Ensemble Proton Bern.
Born in 1963, Daniel Waser grew up in Bern and completed his training as a Bernese advocate. He has over 25 years of experience in the cultural sector with a national and European network. In particular, he built up the Zurich Film Foundation following a successful referendum in 2005. He headed the foundation for 14 years as managing director and successfully positioned regional film funding as an internationally recognized center of excellence.
In his professional career, he has worked as a freelance journalist for the daily newspaper The Confederation, founder and managing director of Cinématte AG and managing director of Quinnie Cinéma Films in Bern and central secretary of impressum, the Swiss journalists' association in Fribourg.
