Urban Federer OSB OESSH (born 17 August 1968) is a Swiss Benedictine prelate who has served as Abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent since 2013.

He is a member of the Federer family, who are part of the Bürgergemeinde of Berneck, St. Gallen, and is the brother of the Swiss politician Barbara Schmid-Federer.

[1] He is the great-great-grandson of the politician Josef Zemp, who was the first member of a conservative party to be elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland.

[3] In 2001, Federer worked as a religion, German language, and history teacher at the abbey's grammar school.

In 2007 he received his doctorate with a dissertation in medieval German studies on mystical experience in literary dialogue between Heinrich von Nördlingen and Margaretha Ebner in the 14th century.