H.E. Mr. Pio Wennubst (Lead Discussant)

Assistant Director General, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Pio Wennubst currently serves as the Assistant Director General at the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He joined the Agency in 1995 and was initially posted to Bolivia and subsequently to Madagascar where he was tasked with reorganizing Swiss development cooperation activities. After a period as an economist at the SDC’s head office in Bern, in 2004 Pio Wennubst was appointed SDC country director in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From 2008 to 2011, he was the deputy permanent representative of the Swiss mission to the Rome-based UN agencies. From 2010, he was also in charge of the SDC’s Global Programme Food Security. He later joined the Swiss permanent mission to the UN in New York as head of the economic and social development team.