Since 2024, it has been headed by Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi of the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland.

The Information & Communications Sector is led by Vice-Chancellor André Simonazzi, this role also has expanded to become the official spokesman for the Federal Council in 2000.

[4] For administrative purposes, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner is affiliated to the Chancellery.

Initially a magistrate function, its role became less important after 1918 when it served mainly as a career reward for distinguished public servants.

[6] Remarkably enough, though, when Corinna Casanova was elected Federal Chancellor three years later, the nomination of Thomas Helbling as her successor, another Swiss German, raised no such public criticism.