{"id":4420,"date":"2025-09-23T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dufouradvokatur.194.150.248.68.dev-url.ch\/team\/dr-christoph-degen\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:09:45","slug":"dr-christoph-degen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dufour-advokatur.ch\/en\/team\/dr-christoph-degen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Christoph Degen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partner<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

Dr. Christoph Degen<\/h1><\/div>
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Portrait<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Dr. Christoph Degen is an attorney and partner at DUFOUR Advokatur AG in Basel. He is a founding member of proFonds, umbrella organization for charitable foundations in Switzerland and has been its managing director since 1990. Christoph Degen is a board member and advisor to numerous charitable foundations and associations, as well as co-founder and president of the Foundation Laurenz f\u00fcr das Kind in Basel. From 1998 to 2006, he acted as part-time judge at the Federal Appeals Commission BVG in Lausanne, and in 2018 he chaired the Volkswagen Foundation’s Investment Evaluation Panel. Christoph Degen currently chairs the Appeals Board of ART Basel. He was a lecturer in tax law for non-profit organizations at the Institute for Association, Foundation and Cooperative Management (VMI) and is a lecturer at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS) at the University of Basel. He is also the author of numerous publications and papers on the subject of foundations. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Experience<\/h3><\/div>
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    Partner (since 1993)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Vice-President of Building and Asset Management for the Evangelical-Reformed Church of the Canton Basel-Stadt<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    President of the Appeals Board ART Basel<\/div><\/li>
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    Lecturer at the Centre for Philanthropy Studies, University of Basel, and at the Association Management Institute, University of Fribourg<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Part-time judge of the Federal Appeals Commission BVG, Lausanne (1998-2006) <\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Managing Director of proFonds, umbrella organization of charitable foundations in Switzerland (since 1990)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Legal consultant at a private bank in Basel, Basel (1990-1992)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Bar exam (1989)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

    Commitment<\/h3><\/div>
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      Co-founder and President of the Stiftung Laurenz f\u00fcr das Kind<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      President of Kindernothilfe Schweiz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of the Synod of the Evangelical-Reformed Church of the Canton Basel-Stadt<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Board member of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Board member of the Kurt Imhof Foundation for media quality<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of various other foundations and boards <\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

      Practice areas<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Foundations and NPOs<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Inheritance and estate planning<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Execution of wills<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Art and cultural law<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Occupational benefits<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Contract law<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4276,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDr. Christoph Degen - Dufour Advokatur<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Christoph Degen is a partner at DUFOUR Advokatur in Basel, specializing in foundation law, estate planning and art law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dufour-advokatur.ch\/en\/team\/dr-christoph-degen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Christoph Degen - 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