Jean-Daniel Gerber

 April 2004-

State Secretary, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

 1998-March 2004 

Director of the Federal Office for Refugees

 1993-1997

Executive director and dean (1997) of the Board of the World Bank
Group (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA) in Washington, D.C., representing Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

 1991-1992

Chief of the Development Policy Service with the title of vice-director and minister in the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs
Bern, Switzerland

 1987-1990

Head of the Economic, Financial and Commercial Office in the Embassy of Switzerland, with the title of minister
Washington, D.C., USA

 1984-1986

Head of the secretariat and personal assistant to State Secretaries
C. Sommaruga and F. Blankart in the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs
Bern, Switzerland

 1981-1983

Chief of Section “Developing Countries: Trade, Commodities, Industrialisation” in the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs Bern, Switzerland. Speaker for the OECD member countries on commodities and manufactured products at the UN-Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

 1976-1980

Member of the Swiss Delegation to the International Economic Organisations in Geneva, responsible for GATT affairs and in this capacity selected as member of two dispute settlement panels
Geneva, Switzerland

 1973-1975

Beginning of professional activity as an economist in the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs
Bern, Switzerland