Team

Team

  Regula Spalinger
  rspalinger@ostwest.ch
Function: Owner and General Manager
Education: Degree as Certified Manager of Foreign Business. Lic. phil. I: Slavic languages and English. Additional training as a transcultural interpreter in public services. Certificate from INTERPRET
(www.inter-pret.ch)
Languages: Native language German. Fluent in Russian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosn. as well as in English. French, basic knowledge of Italian and Polish.
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  Ljubisa Djokic
  ldjokic@ostwest.ch
Function: Project manager Russia and Southeastern Europe
Education: Swiss Certified Export Manager (Eidg. dipl. Exportleiter)
Languages: Native languages German und Serbian. English, Russian, French
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  Samira Begman
  sbegman@ostwest.ch
Function: Project manager for finance and accounting
Education: Management diploma from AKAD, certified assistant in accounting ,
Currently preparing her upper graduation with the Swiss Federal Diploma in finance and accounting, Diploma from the University of Belgrade for Economics and Tourism
Languages: Native language Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. Fluent in German. Russian, English
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  Manfred Spalinger
  mspalinger@ostwest.ch
Function: IT and Documentation
Education: Archivist and document specialist
Languages: Native language German. English, Russian, French; Italian
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Promoting Exports to Central and Eastern Europe
KOW Country Reps: Our team in Switzerland is complemented by local country experts with experience in internationalization. These experts have worked as project managers in market research and client/partner acquisition or have a convincing track record of successfully accompanying foreign investments.
Additional network of business lawyers, tax and financial experts in the target country;
international service providers in forwarding and logistics to/from Eastern Europe, customs brokers;
facilitating contact to government offices at national and regional levels and other helpful contact points for companies:
Thanks to our presence in foreign trade with Eastern Europe since 1997, we may support your business tailor-made and quickly. We will be happy to apply this strategic network for your enterprise as well.
 
Language Services for Eastern European Languages
We are dedicated to high standards of quality. Therefore we engage only proven translators and interpreters. The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA rely on such quality as our longstanding partners. Also many SMEs, certain large businesses, judicial bodies and private clients profit from the language skills deployed by our team of translators. For more details please check the Language Services section.
 
 

 

Seminars

January - July 2026
Anstehende Veranstaltungen im Zwetajewa Zentrum

ZWETAJEWA ZENTRUM, Uni Freiburg i.Br.
Veranstaltungsreihe mit Fokus Kasachstan

January - July 2026
URIS - Ukrainian Research in Switzerland

The academic initiative URIS is based at the Department of History of the University of Basel

April 28, 2026 13:30 - 18.00
JCC Annual General Meeting

Location: Rieter AG, Winterthur