New Permanent Representative of Switzerland Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Thomas Gürber, the new Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Gürber had been serving as Deputy State Secretary at the State Secretariat of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern since 2023. He has held multiple other positions within the Department, including as Head of the United Nations Division; Director of the Centre for Security Sector Governance; Deputy Head of the Middle East and North Africa Division; and Regional Coordinator.

Mr. Gürber also held Deputy Head positions at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York, and at the Swiss Mission in Copenhagen. After beginning his diplomatic career in 1997, he worked in Bern and in London, before being assigned as a diplomatic staffer to the former Political Division IV of the State Secretariat of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern from 1999 to 2005.

Mr. Gürber undertook postgraduate studies at the Europainstitut in Basel and the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern. He obtained a degree in history, general studies, linguistics and literature from the University of Basel.

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