Jean-Daniel Gerber

In the late 1970s, Jean-Daniel Gerber was a Swiss delegate to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

He subsequently headed up the Developing Countries Section at Switzerland’s then Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs.

He then moved to the Swiss Embassy in Washington as head of the Finance, Economics and Trade Division.

In the mid-1990s, Jean-Daniel Gerber spent five years as an executive director and as dean of the World Bank Board, before being appointed director of the Federal Office for Migration at Switzerland’s Federal Department of Justice and Police in November 1997.

The maxim of Jean-Daniel Gerber is “Ut melius fiat” (turn it to the better).