Marion Weichelt Krupski

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Marion Weichelt Krupski (* 1964 in Zurich , resident in Zurich and Altdorf / UR ) is a Swiss diplomat . From 2010 to 2014 she was the Swiss Ambassador to New Zealand , Cook Islands , Fiji , Samoa , Tonga and Tuvalu and the Swiss Consul General for American Samoa . From 2014 to 2017 she was the deputy head of mission in Berlin . Since August 2017 she has been the Swiss ambassador to Senegal , Mali , Mauritania , Gambia , Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde .

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Born in Zurich in 1964, she grew up as the daughter of a former German refugee in Zurich. She attended Literargymnasium Rämibühl in Zurich and spent 1981-1982 as AFS - exchange student for a year in Newtown , Connecticut ( USA ) where she graduated with a high school diploma. After graduation she studied at the University of Zurich Law and doctorate under Prof . Daniel Thürer in international humanitarian law . She worked at the Zurich District Court and the Zurich Higher Court as well as at the then Education Department of the Canton of Zurich (now the Education Department of the Canton of Zurich) as a legal secretary.

In 1994 she joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and was deployed as a trainee in Bern , Tel Aviv ( Israel ) and Geneva . From May 1996 she worked as a diplomatic assistant in the Humanitarian and International Refugee Policy section of the Political Department in Bern. From 1998 to 2000 she took unpaid leave from the diplomatic service and worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Butare ( Rwanda ) and for the regional delegation in Tunis . From 2000 to 2003 she worked as a diplomatic assistant in the Political Department for Africa and the Middle East , before being transferred to Washington DC in 2003 as an embassy counselor with responsibility for law and politics . From 2006 to 2009 she was Deputy Head of Human Resources and Head of Personnel Deployment in the Directorate for Resources and External Networks in the FDFA, before she was appointed Deputy Director in the Directorate of International Law and Head of the Department of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law with the rank of Ambassador in 2009 . During this time she was Secretary General of the International Humanitarian Investigation Commission (IHEK), coordinator of the counter-terrorism working group in the FDFA and member of the Coordination Office against Human Trafficking (KSMM) in the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP).

In August 2010, Weichelt Krupski succeeded Beat Nobs as head of the Swiss Embassy in Wellington . From 2014 to 2017 she was the deputy head of mission in Berlin .

In September 2016 she was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Embassy in Dakar ( Senegal ). The accreditation is also valid for Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania.

family

Marion Weichelt Krupski is married to the Uri social worker and online coach Waldemar Krupski. She is the mother of two sons and a daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New ambassadors for Switzerland. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Pascale Baeriswyl appointed State Secretary in the FDFA. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Message de bienvenue. Retrieved April 30, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Appointments to the FDFA. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Exciting life on different continents. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ WAKR online coaching, Waldemar Krupski. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Weichelt Krupski, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , entitled to reside in Zurich and Altdorf / UR