Swiss diplomat for over 20 years, I am currently Ambassador and Director of the International Geneva Welcome Centre (CAGI), created by the Swiss Confederation and the State of Geneva to support the settlement and integration of employees and their families working for the many international organizations, permanent missions and NGOs based in the Geneva region, to support the establishment and development of international NGOs, and to support foreign delegates attending international conferences.Throughout my career, in Switzerland and abroad, I could develop skills in many fields, be it leadership and personnel management (managing public and private entities, with several dozen employees and in multicultural contexts), budgeting (managing subsidies budgets of over CHF 27 million per year as well as a private entity with a yearly budget of CHF 2.5 million), negotiations (with foreign governements as well as local authorities), conceptual analysis and strategic development, implementation of objectives and programs, drafting of political papers, project planning and management, organization of large-scale events and complex high-level visits (including presidential visits), crisis management, communication and public relations, and high-level ceremonial representation tasks (welcoming Heads of state and government, etc.).I am a committed person, efficient, resistant to stress and a heavy workload, persevering, collegial and team player, flexible, with good political sense and strong analytical skills.