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Ambassador Heidi Grau

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in­-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group
Heidi Grau, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in­-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Vienna, 6 February 2020.
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The Albanian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office appointed Ambassador Heidi Grau of Switzerland as his Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group on 3 January 2020. Prior to this appointment, Grau was Assistant Secretary of State and Head of the Human Security Division in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. She served as the Head of Switzerland’s OSCE Chairmanship Task Force from 2012 until 2015, leading Switzerland’s Chairmanship in 2014. From 2010 to 2012, she was Chief of Staff of the Swiss Foreign Minister and President of the Swiss Confederation. She served, inter alia, as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York and at the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow. Ambassador Grau joined the Swiss Foreign Ministry in 1997. She holds a Master of Arts in History of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.