Jacques de Watteville

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Jacques de Watteville (left) with Michael Linhart

Jacques de Watteville (* 1951 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss diplomat . From 2015 to 2017 he was Switzerland’s chief EU negotiator.

After completing his Baccalauréat in Paris , de Wattevile studied law and economics and received his doctorate. jur. at the University of Lausanne . In 1982 he joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). After holding various positions as secretary, counselor, envoy and ambassador in Bern , Brussels , London , Damascus and Beijing , he was appointed State Secretary of the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) in 2013. In August 2015, the Federal Council appointed him chief negotiator for negotiations with the European Union to implement the new constitutional article on immigration . Due to his retirement, he was replaced in this role on April 1, 2017 by the State Secretary in the FDFA, Pascale Baeriswyl .

De Watteville is married and has three children.

Fonts

  • La piraterie aérienne: étude de droit international et de droit suisse . R. Thonney-Dupraz, Lausanne 1978. (Diss., University of Lausanne)
  • La Suisse et la coopération internationale pour lutter contre la concurrence fiscale dommageable . Cantons in the integration process: twelve working papers, 44
  • Secret bancaire: le secret bancaire suisse face aux développements internationaux récents, notamment à l'OCDE et dans l'UE . Volkswirtschaft, 73 (2000) Issue 7, pp. 32–35.

Web links

Commons : Jacques de Watteville  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV on the website of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) (PDF)
  2. ↑ Christof Forster: New chief negotiator facing a difficult task . Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 12, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ New EU chief negotiator. ( Memento from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Tagblatt, February 22, 2017.
predecessor Office successor
Robert Mayor Swiss ambassador to Belgium
2007–2012 		Roberto Balzaretti
Blaise Godet Swiss ambassador to China
2012–2013 		Jean-Jacques de Dardel
personal data
SURNAME Watteville, Jacques de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne