{"id":7293,"date":"2015-09-02T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe-and-switzerland\/permanent-representation\/schweizer-diplomaten\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:30:56","slug":"swiss-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe-and-switzerland\/swiss-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike local staff<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, diplomats rarely stay in the same place for more than a couple of years in order to prevent them from becoming part of their host country\u2019s society and loosing their outsider\u2019s view.<\/p>\n

This is why the team working at the Permanent Representation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of Switzerland to the Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> changes every now and then. At present, Switzerland is represent in Strassburg by the following diplomats<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Ambassador Claude Wild<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Claude Wild has been Switzerland’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe since spring 2023. The political scientist has a postgraduate degree in security policy and held posts in Nigeria, Moscow and Brussels.<\/p>\n

After his appointment as ambassador, he first headed the Human Security Division in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and then became familiar with multilateral diplomacy as Switzerland’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. Immediately prior to his assignment in Strasbourg, Claude Wild was Ambassador to Kiev, where he experienced a turbulent time due to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Urs Beer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Urs Beer’s work as a diplomat has so far taken him to Cairo, Ankara, Strasbourg and Tbilisi. The historian has been associated with the Council of Europe for quite some time, as he worked at the Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the Council of Europe from 2012-17. Today, he is responsible for political and cultural dossiers as well as all matters relating to the Council of Europe’s budget and work programme. As the Ambassador’s deputy, he also heads the Permanent Representation as Charg\u00e9 d’Affaires in the Ambassador’s absence.
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Sophie Heegaard Schroeter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sophie Heegaard Schroeter holds a doctorate in law and worked in the Directorate for International Law of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, where she was responsible for human rights and international humanitarian law. In 2022, she was posted to Strassburg where she is responsible for all legal matters the Council of Europe deals with, including the quarterly meetings of the Committee of Ministers where the Deputies oversee the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotos: Claude Wild \u00a9 EDA; Urs Beer \u00a9 Europe’s Human Rights Watchdog
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