On Friday 20 September, Guillaume Scheurer, the new Ambassador of Switzerland to Morocco, met the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita. He “came to present to him the figurative copies of his letters of credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Helvetic Republic to HM King Mohammed VI”, the official press release states. Guillaume Scheurer, born on 20 December 1963, graduated in Law from the University of Neuchâtel before undertaking postgraduate studies in international security policy at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. After a spell in the private sector, Mr Scheurer held the post of Deputy Head of Section of the Swiss delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, then several other positions including, notably, Deputy Head of the Human Security political division at the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2003 and 2005 and deputy to the head of his country’s mission in Washington in 2009, before being promoted to head of mission in Kyiv between 2015 and 2019.
