Pascale Baeriswyl

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Pascale Baeriswyl, May 2018

Pascale Baeriswyl (born April 4, 1968 in Bern ; legal resident in Basel and Freiburg ) is a Swiss lawyer, historian, linguist and diplomat . From 2016 to 2019 she was State Secretary in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). In 2019 she was appointed by the Federal Council as the new head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York.

Career

In 1987 Baeriswyl passed the Matura type A at the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel. She then began studying at the Universities of Basel and Geneva , from which she graduated with a licentiate in law (with a focus on European law ) as well as history , French literature and linguistics .

Since 1996, Baeriswyl worked as legal advisor for the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Halt-Violence project, and between 1998 and 2001 as a part-time judge at the civil court of the canton of Basel-Stadt . In 2000 she moved to the FDFA and began a diplomatic career there , which took her to the Swiss representations in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi , to the European Union in Brussels and to the United Nations in New York . Since 2013 she has worked in the Directorate for International Law of the FDFA. Initially, she worked there as head of the Asset Recovery Task Force, in 2014 she was appointed Ambassador and Deputy Director of the Directorate for International Law by the Federal Council.

From December 2016 to December 2019, Baeriswyl was State Secretary in the Political Directorate of the FDFA. In this position, she replaced Yves Rossier , who was appointed ambassador to the Russian Federation . From April 1, 2017, Baeriswyl coordinated the negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union, including the implementation of the new constitutional article on immigration, as the successor to the retiring Jacques de Watteville . At the end of January 2018, she was replaced in this role by Roberto Balzaretti . On August 21, 2019, she was appointed the new head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York. She will take up her new position in summer 2020.

Political commitment

Baeriswyl is a member of the Social Democratic Party . In the canton of Basel-Stadt Association was it the end of the 1990s, a member of the party executive.

Private

Baeriswyl is married with two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascale Baeriswyl appointed State Secretary in the FDFA. EDA press release of September 30, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Jan Flückiger: Social Democrat becomes chief diplomat. NZZ , September 30, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Simon Gemperli: Normalization in the organizational chart. NZZ, February 22, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  4. ↑ Markus Häfliger: A non-party should untie the Gordian knot. Der Bund , February 1, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2018
  5. ↑ Tobias Bär: European politics: Balzaretti displaces Baeriswyl. Luzerner Zeitung , February 1, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2018
  6. ↑ FDFA State Secretary Pascale Baeriswyl will be in charge of Switzerland's mission to the UN in New York in 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Alan Cassidy: Burkhalter's Surprising Choice. Tages-Anzeiger , September 30, 2016, accessed February 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Baeriswyl, Pascale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäriswyl, Pascale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th April 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern