Rita Adam

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Rita Adam (born July 12, 1969 in Biel / Bienne ) is a Swiss diplomat and since 2018 ambassador to the Italian Republic , the Republic of Malta and the Republic of San Marino , based in Rome .

Career

From 1976 to 1988 Adam attended school and graduated from high school in Biel / Bienne.

Rita Adam studied law at the University of Bern from 1989 to 2006 and then passed her bar exam. This was followed by a first job as a legal secretary at the Thun district court .

Adam then worked at the UN in Geneva , at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in the departments for international organizations and multilateral peace policy, and as head of the legal department at the Swiss embassy in Paris .

In 2010 Adam held a double mandate for four years as the Swiss Ambassador to Liechtenstein and in the legal department of the Directorate for International Law in the FDFA. From 2014 to 2018 she worked as the Swiss ambassador in Tunis .

Since November 2018 she has been living and working as the Swiss ambassador in Rome .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “The face of Switzerland”. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Günther Meier: Swiss voice in Liechtenstein | NZZ . July 1, 2013, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Rachid Khechana, Tunis, adaptation from the French: Renat Kuenzi: "Tunisia has made significant progress". Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Swiss ambassadors - five women in five very different regions. August 26, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel