Join us for a discussion about transatlantic relationships with Ambassador of Switzerland to the US Jacques Pitteloud.
Jacques Pitteloud has served as Ambassador of Switzerland to the US of America since 2019. He has been serving in Swiss Foreign Service since 1987 as a Swiss Strategic Intelligence Officer, a personal advisor to two successive Defense Ministers, and Swiss Ambassador to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and the Seychelles.
After having been a witness of the Rwanda Genocide in 1994, Dr Pitteloud created an organization dedicated to the task of hunting down and bringing to justice the perpetrators and he managed to have several of them prosecuted both by the international as well as domestic courts. Ambassador Pitteloud headed the Swiss Delegation to the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Dr Pitteloud earned a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. from the Law School at the University of Zürich (Master 1986, PhD 1987). He speaks French, English, German, Swiss German, Italian and Spanish fluently and he has a basic knowledge of a few other languages.
