Jurg Stephan Burri Swiss Ambassador in Beijing

Jürg Burri was born in 1965 in Thun, Switzerland. After graduating from the University of Berne with a licentiate in Contemporary History and Political Sciences, he briefly worked as journalist before joining the Swiss Foreign Service in 1996.

He completed his diplomatic training with positions in the United Nations Section at the headquarters in Berne and with the Swiss Mission to the United Nations in New York.

From 1998 to 2002, he was posted in the United Nations Section in Berne, working on preparations for Switzerland’s accession to the United Nations.

Subsequently, he was appointed as Science, Education and Space Counselor to the Mission of Switzerland to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, until 2006.

From the same year until 2009, he served as the Minister/Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing.

Upon his return to Berne in 2009, he was appointed Deputy Director of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation with the Federal Department of Home Affairs. From 2013 to 2014, he was the Head of the Research and Innovation Directorate for the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research.

From 2014 to 2018, he was the Director General of the Consular Directorate of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Berne.

In 2018, he was appointed as Ambassador of Switzerland in Poland with residence in Warsaw, where he served until 2022.

Since September 2022, Jürg Burri is the Ambassador of Switzerland to the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with residence in Beijing