Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations
Swiss Confederation
Since 1 September 2020, Jürg Lauber has been the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Office of United Nations and to the other international organisations in Geneva. From 2015 to 2020, he served as Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as head of the United Nations and International Organisations Division in Bern. Between 2009 and 2011 he was the Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Office of United Nations and the other international organisations in Geneva and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Conference on Disarmament. Between 2007 and 2009 he served as Chef de cabinet to the President of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. As a diplomat he was previously posted in Bangkok, Bern, Beijing and New York. Before joining the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in 1993 he worked in peacekeeping missions in Namibia (UNTAG) and Korea (Panmunjom). Jürg Lauber has a law degree from the University of Zurich. He was born in 1963 in Horgen, (ZH) and grew up in Baar (ZG), Switzerland.
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