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Amb. Christine Schraner Burgener

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Amb. Christine Schraner Burgener has been the Ambassador of Switzerland in Berlin since August 2015. She joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1992, as an attaché at the Swiss embassy in Rabat, Morocco. Back in Switzerland, she worked from 1993 to 1997 as the Deputy Chief of the human rights section of the parliament. From 2004 to 2009 she was Deputy Director in the International Law Directorate and Head of the Department of human rights and humanitarian law. From 2007 she has worked as an ambassador to various embassies throughout the world. She was the Swiss Ambassador in Bangkok, Thailand from 2009 to 2015 when she took her office in Berlin.