Maya Jaouhari Tissafi

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Maya Tissafi

Maya Jaouhari Tissafi (* 1965 in Hamburg , legal resident in Bern) is a Swiss diplomat. She was Ambassador to Abu Dhabi from 2015 to 2019. Since September 2019 she has been Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs .

Life

Tissafi is the child of an editor with Polish-German roots and a Moroccan journalist. She grew up in Hamburg and Bern. She studied social work and health sciences and graduated with a Master of Public Health from the Universities of Basel , Bern and Zurich . In addition, she completed training as a mediator. Since 1993 she has been working in international cooperation: from 1993 to 1999 at the Christian Peace Service , where she set up the psychosocial program in Bosnia in 1993. From 1994 to 1999 she was program manager for the Palestine-Israel program.

In 2000, she and her family left for Tanzania in order to accompany the health reform in Tanzania for SolidarMed on behalf of the SDC as Technical Advisor. She acted as the head of the SolidarMed cooperation office in Ifakara . In 2002 Maya Tissafi moved to the Directorate for Development and Cooperation as a gender officer and from 2006 headed the Social Development Section. In October 2008 Tissafi was appointed Head of Department East and Southern Africa, in 2011 she took over the management of the Regional Cooperation Department and was appointed Deputy Director with the title of Ambassador.

In 2015 Tissafi should have become ambassador to Morocco, but due to her family roots, she was then appointed by the Federal Council as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and, from 2018, also as ambassador to Bahrain based in Abu Dhabi . She was also appointed permanent representative of Switzerland at IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency).

In September 2019, Tissafi took over the management of the Middle East and North Africa Department in the Political Directorate of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern. For this function Tissafi was awarded the title of ambassador.

Tissafi is married and has three children.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State calendar: Team. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b New Vice Director of the SDC appointed. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Maya Tissafi: Bio. (PDF) Retrieved April 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Maya Tissafi: Primary Health Care: Cold Coffee? Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ admin.ch: Bio. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ New ambassadors. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Markus Schär: Shame . In: Weltwoche . August 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ Bahrain Ambassador to UAE receives copy of credentials of Swiss Confederation non-resident Ambassador to Kingdom. Retrieved May 24, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ New ambassadors. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ admin.ch: New ambassadors. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Interview of Maya Tissafi, Ambassador of Switzerland to the UAE In: Madame. UAE Swiss Magazine. accessed on May 19, 2020
  12. ↑ Emirates News Agency: UAE President confers Order of Independence on Swiss ambassador . , May 29, 2019, accessed May 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Tissafi, Maya Jaouhari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg