Yasmine Chatila Zwahlen

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Yasmine Chatila Zwahlen (* 1963 in Beirut , resident in Stein AG and Matten ) is a Swiss diplomat . She has been working in the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) since 1994 . From 2012 to 2016 she was the Swiss ambassador to Costa Rica . She has been Switzerland's ambassador and special envoy for the Pacific region since 2017.

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Yasmine Chatila was born into a Swiss-Lebanese family and spent the first years of her life in Lebanon , where she attended the German School in Beirut. When the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975, the family moved to Switzerland, where the grandparents lived. Yasmine Chatila attended the modern language grammar school in Wettingen Monastery , where she graduated from high school in 1983. After further training, she first worked as a press secretary in the information service of Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC), the future ABB, in Baden . From 1985 she studied English language and literature , Islamic studies and modern Near Eastern philology at the Universities of Bern and Exeter (UK). After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Bern, she joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1994 and was employed as a trainee at the Directorate for Development and Cooperation in Bern and at the Swiss Embassy in Cairo . From the end of 1995 she worked in Bern as a diplomatic assistant in the FDFA's foreign policy planning team. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a press spokeswoman for the EDA information service team. From 2000–2001, she built an antenna for the EDA information service at the Swiss Permanent Mission to the UN and the international organizations in Geneva and thus cooperation with the international media based in Geneva. From 2001 to 2005 she was Deputy Head of Mission at the Swiss Embassy in Damascus , Syria. From 2005 to 2008 she was Deputy Head of Mission in Lisbon , Portugal. The items in Damascus and Lisbon she shared with her husband in job sharing . From 2008 she headed the Education , Research and Science section at the headquarters of the FDFA in Bern . She was also a permanent member of the Swiss delegation to the CERN Council in Geneva.

In August 2012 she became the Swiss ambassador to Costa Rica. She shared the management of the embassy in San José with her husband, who was accredited as ambassador to El Salvador , Nicaragua and Panama . In 2017 she became head of mission in job sharing with her husband in Canberra , Australia . She represents Switzerland as a special envoy in the Pacific region and as an ambassador in Kiribati , Nauru , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu .

Yasmine Chatila Zwahlen is married to the Swiss Ambassador Pedro Zwahlen. The couple have a daughter and a son.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New ambassador for Switzerland. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ New ambassadors. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Pacific Islands Forum. August 26, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ Welcome. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Godwin Ligo: Switzerland consolidates relations with Vanuatu. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Chatila Zwahlen, Yasmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut