BELGIUM Florence Roth René Strehler NETHERLANDS Giuanna Egger-Maissen Raoul Thoos LUXEMBOURG Christophe Haelg (new) DENMARK Erna Kleiner NORWAY * Heidi Mustvedt-Plüss SWEDEN vacant vacant GERMANY Martin Abächerli (new) Yvonne M. Diffenhard Stephan Frei (new) Anja Heise-Kintzen (new) Christina Kallmeyer (new) Albert Eduard Küng Sonja Lengning Camillo Müller (new) LIECHTENSTEIN Olivier Künzler FINLAND * Martin Tapio (new) GROSSBRITANNIEN Andreas Feller-Ryf (new) Loredana Guetg-Wyatt Michelle Hufschmid (new) Franz Muheim Lakshmi Sundaram (new) IRELAND Angelina Casutt (new) FRANCE Dominique Baccaunaud Vuillemin Jean-Paul Beti Jacques de Buttet Valéry Engelhard Arnaud Haefelin (new) Stéphanie Leu Adrien Lhabitant (new) Françoise Millet-Leroux Claude Muller (new) Olivier Prêtre (new) Jean-Jacques Richard (new) Marie Silletta (new) SPAIN Ernst Erich Balmer Gérald Richli Markus Thomas Bruno Wiget PORTUGAL Thomas Kottmann (new) MONACO vacant ITALY Gian Franco Definti Regula Hilfiker Nicolò Solimano (new) Fabio Trebbi Renato Vitetta (new) Markus Werner Wiget CZECH REPUBLIC * Patrick Scherer (new) AUSTRIA Robert Beitlmeier Ivo Dürr Nicole Prutsch (new) HUNGARY John McGough CROATIA * Marija Komin SERBIA * vacant GREECE Constantin Kokkinos TURKEY Helen Freiermuth RUSSIA * Daniel Rehmann USA Felix Egli (new) Robert Lensch (new) Jean-Pierre Mittaz David W. Mörker Daniel Rahm (new) Jeannette Seifert-Wittmer Margrit Young-Zellweger Franco Zimmerli MEXIKO Hans Broder (new) Federico Rubli CANADA Thomas Arn (new) Antoine Belaieff (new) Philippe Magnenat Samuel Oettli (new) Johann Roduit (new) Suzanne M. Schürmann (new) BRAZIL Hanspeter Häfeli Michael Gustav Helfenberger (new) Marion Scheel (new) PARAGUAY * vacant ARGENTINA Alexia Berni (new) Miguel Angel Arregui (new) Denis Quinodoz (new) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC * Reto Derungs VENEZUELA * Pierino Lardi UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Urs Stirnimann LEBANON * Hermes Murrat ISRAEL Erich Bloch Monique Heymann (new) Laurent Schwed Ralph Steigrad EGYPT Simone Höch (new) ETHIOPIA * Noel Frei (new) KENYA * Shazaad Kasmani JAPAN Matthias Y. Sutter (new) CHINA vacant HONG KONG Patrick Heimann (new) VIETNAM * Claudius Rüegsegger (new) PHILIPPINES * Ismael Ozdes Sevket (new) AUSTRALIA Roland Isler Beat Knoblauch Carmen Trochsler Katja Wallimann Gates NEW ZEALAND Peter Canziani Peter Ehrler MOROCCO & ALGERIA vacant TUNISIA & LIBYA vacant SRI LANKA * Rolf Blaser (new) THAILAND Adrian Meister Josef Schnyder (new) SINGAPORE Alexandra De Mello MAURITIUS * Pierre-Yves Roten SWITZERLAND Hans Ambühl François Baur Roland Rino Büchel Giampiero Gianella (new) Filippo Lombardi Lucas Metzger Isabelle Moret (awaiting confirm.) Robert Reich Monika Rüegger Regula Rytz Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter Sabina Schwarzenbach Carlo Sommaruga Ernst Erich Steinmann (new) Jean-Pierre Stern Beatrice Weber Laurent Wehrli Sarah Wyss (new) Peter Zschaler ein Sitz vakant YOUTH SEATS Luis Alberto Gostin Kramer, Chile (new) Jacqueline Siffer, USA (new) COSTA RICA * Irène Keller Bachmann COLOMBIA Karl Hans Schmid PERU Susanne Spittler (new) BOLIVIA * Annette Aernie Mendieta CHILE Luisa Bodevin (new) Angelina Senn (new) The new Council of the Swiss Abroad They are the political voice that represents the interests of the “Fifth Switzerland”: the members of the Council of the Swiss Abroad elected for the 2021–2025 term. A good third of the members are new to the Council. And once again, just under one third of them are women. ASR SOUTH AFRICA * Hans-Georg Bosch second seat vacant THE NEW OSA EXECUTIVE BOARD The strategic body, the OSA Executive Board, comprises the following members as of 1 September 2021: Filippo Lombardi, Schweiz, neu Präsident Dominique Baccaunaud Vuillemin, Frankreich (new) Gian Franco Definti, Italien Helen Freiermuth, Türkei (new) Albert Eduard Küng, Deutschland (new) Lucas Metzger, Schweiz David W. Mörker, USA Franz Muheim, Grossbritannien Carlo Sommaruga, Schweiz Carmen Trochsler, Australien (new) Laurent Wehrli, Schweiz * The delegates from countries marked with an asterisk represent a country group