On 15 May, the Federal Council appointed Liliana de Sá Kirchknopf, currently head of Private Sector Development in the Economic Cooperation and Development Division at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, as Switzerland’s Executive Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. At the same time, the Federal Council has conferred on her the title of Ambassador. Liliana de Sá Kirchknopf will take up her post on 1 September, succeeding Rosmarie Schlup, who has been Executive Director since September 2022.
