Ambassador Roger DUBACH
Ambassador-Designate of Switzerland to Japan
Roger Dubach, born in 1974, studied Law at the University of Fribourg and Philosophy at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). In 2003, he joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and completed his training in Bern and Dakar. From 2004, he joined the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and was appointed in 2006 as a Diplomatic Advisor to the Director of the Federal Office for Energy. In this and his next function as Energy Counsellor at the Swiss Mission to the EU in Brussels from 2009, he acted as Technical Director of the electricity negotiations between Switzerland and the EU. In 2013, he was appointed as a Personal Advisor to the Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard, and then as Chief Advisor and later Deputy Director of the Task Force for the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship. From 2016 to summer 2018, he served as Diplomatic Advisor on G20 issues in the Cabinet of the OECD Secretary-General in Paris, and was appointed by the Federal Council in August 2018 as an Ambassador and Deputy Director of the Directorate of International Law. On 1 March 2024 he was appointed by the Federal Council as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan.
From September 7, 2024, he takes up his position as Ambassador-designate of Switzerland to Japan.
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