Christine Schraner Burgener

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Ambassador Schraner Burgener, celebration on August 1st, 2012, Swiss Embassy in Bangkok

Christine Schraner Burgener (born September 25, 1963 as Christine Schraner in Meiringen ; resident in Dübendorf , Wil AG and Visp ) is a Swiss diplomat and has been a UN Special Envoy for Myanmar since May 2018 . She was Swiss Ambassador to Thailand from 2009 to May 2015 and Ambassador to Germany from August 2015 to May 2018 .

Life

Christine Schraner Burgener grew up in Tokyo as the daughter of a technician for the Swiss airline Swissair . In Japan she attended a German school as a primary school until 1973 . After returning to Switzerland, she continued her school career in Lindau ZH , first in Winterberg ZH and then in Grafstal. From 1979 to 1982 she attended a grammar school in Winterthur . From 1983 to 1988 she studied law at the University of Zurich , together with the future Federal President Doris Leuthard . She completed her studies with a licentiate . From 1988 to 1991 she was court secretary at the district court of Horgen , where she was chairwoman of the arbitration boards for tenancy and labor law .

She is married to the diplomat Christoph Burgener (* 1962), the former Swiss ambassador in Rangoon , Myanmar. The couple have a daughter and a son. Schraner Burgener is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP).

Diplomatic career

She joined the diplomatic service in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in 1991, first as a stage in the international law section, then in 1992 as an attaché at the Swiss embassy in Rabat , Morocco .

Back in Switzerland, she was deputy head of the human rights section from 1993 to 1997. During this time she dealt with the development of the human rights dialogue with the People's Republic of China , lectured and published on the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and attended the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 as a member of the Swiss delegation . Her next position was as counselor at the embassy in Dublin in a job sharing position with her husband. From 2001 to 2003 she was, also sharing her job with her husband, head of the human rights policy section at the FDFA, then worked for the head of the human security department .

Swiss Embassy in Bangkok, 2009

From 2004 to 2009 she was Vice Director in the Directorate of International Law and Head of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Department. From 2007 she had the rank of ambassador there. During this time, she was Secretary General of the International Humanitarian Investigation Committee (IHEK), coordinator of the FDFA's counter-terrorism working group, member of the Anti-Human Trafficking Coordination Office (KSMM) in the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP), co-head of the Conference on the Cluster Bombs Convention 2008 in Dublin and President of the EDA section of the Federal Employees' Union (PVB).

Christine Schraner Burgener had her first assignment as ambassador from 2009 to 2015 as the successor to Rodolphe Imhoof as Swiss ambassador in Bangkok . In a job sharing relationship with her husband, she was responsible for Thailand from 2009 to 2012 and he was responsible for Cambodia , Laos and Myanmar until 2012, when a Swiss embassy was opened in Myanmar, where her husband was ambassador. The principle of division of labor was supported by the then Swiss Federal Councilor Micheline Calmy-Rey . According to statements by the German ambassador to Thailand at the time, Rolf Peter Gottfried Schulze , she was the only female diplomat to have had contact with both camps during the political crisis in Thailand in 2013/14 . The previous ambassador in Manila, Ivo Sieber , has been appointed as the new ambassador in Thailand .

From August 27, 2015 to May 14, 2018, she was Tim Guldimann's successor as Ambassador in Berlin . Your successor in Berlin is Paul Seger . In May 2018 she was appointed UN special envoy for Myanmar.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Swiss Embassy in Berlin is becoming female ( memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article from May 22, 2015 by Christoph Reichmuth from the Luzerner Zeitung in the Bote der Urschweiz (PDF)
  2. ↑ Patrik Müller : “Angela Merkel seems totally grounded to me” Interview in: Switzerland on Sunday December 12th, 2015.
  3. ↑ Andreas Saurer: Woman power in diplomacy - from this summer also in Berlin. In: Berner Zeitung of January 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Welcome from the ambassador. Retrieved November 16, 2015. (archive version)
  5. ↑ Appointment of Christine Schraner Burgener as special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Myanmar. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Fredy Gsteiger (SRF), Petra Krimphove, swissinfo: The Swiss woman for peace in Myanmar . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed on May 15, 2018]).
predecessor Office successor
Rodolphe Imhoof Swiss Ambassador to Thailand
2009–2015 		Ivo Sieber
Tim Guldimann Swiss Ambassador to Germany
2015–2018 		Paul Seger
personal data
SURNAME Schraner Burgener, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schraner, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiringen