Pascale Baeriswyl

Pascale Baeriswyl (born 1968 in Bern) is a Swiss diplomat, Ambassador and currently Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations (UN) in New York.

[2][1] After graduating, she worked as a researcher and legal advisor on domestic violence at the Swiss National Science Foundation[3] and served for three years as a judge at the civil court of the province of Basel.

[3] In 2001, she was posted to the Swiss Embassy to Vietnam in Hanoi,[3] followed by a position as Deputy Head of the Human Rights Policy Section in Bern.

[1] From 2008 and 2013,[6] she headed the political team at the Swiss Mission to the United Nations in New York, with a focus on the UN Security Council.

[10] After Ignazio Cassis succeeded Burkhalter as Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, she was relieved of her duties in negotiations with the EU, while remaining State Secretary.