Ruth Huber (diplomat)

Ruth Huber (* 1966 in Gränichen , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss diplomat . She was ambassador to Zimbabwe and Malawi from 2015 to February 2018 . She is currently Vice Director of the Federal Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

career

Huber completed a master's degree in political science with a major in international relations at the University of St. Gallen . For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) she was a delegate in South Africa , Bosnia and Peru . She joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in 1996 . Huber worked for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Bolivia from 2002 to 2006 . She then moved to the “Work and Income” department in Bern as deputy head . At the SDC she was later deputy head and interim head of the “Global Cooperation” division. She was responsible for multilateral cooperation and the global programs food security , water, climate change and migration . From 2011 to 2015, Huber headed the regional SDC program in Laos , Cambodia and Vietnam as regional director .

At the end of November 2015, Ruth Huber was accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Zimbabwe and Malawi, based in Harare , and on December 17, she presented her credentials to President Robert Mugabe . In March 2018, she took over the SDC's “Eastern Cooperation Directorate” as Vice-Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Bern. Niculin Jäger , previously deputy head of mission in Brazil , was appointed as his successor in Zimbabwe and Malawi .

Web links

• EDA.ch : Curriculum Vitae Ms. Ruth Huber .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} EDA.ch: Curriculum Vitae Ms. Ruth Huber . (accessed April 30, 2020)
2. ↑ ^{a b} EDA.ch: Brief biography of Ms. Ruth Huber, Ambassador . (PDF, accessed May 1, 2020)
3. ^ Swiss Federal Council : New Ambassadors . (Media release of March 28, 2018)