H.E. Benedikt Wechsler, PhD
Ambassador, Head of Division for Digitalisation State Secretariat, Bern
Served as Diplomatic Advisor to Swiss Presidents and Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Branded the “Open and Pop-up Embassy” in Copenhagen. He was the Consul General of Switzerland in San Francisco, pioneering in the Silicon Valley in the field of tech diplomacy. Since July 2021, he is heading the first Division for Digitalisation and is charged with the implementation of the Swiss Digital Foreign Policy Strategy.