Ambassador's Corner
Ambassador Andreas Künne is EU Ambassador and represents the European Union vis-à-vis the Swiss and Liechtenstein governments, federal and cantonal authorities and parliaments, social partners and interest groups, and the civil society.
ANDREAS KÜNNE
Andreas Künne took up his post as Ambassador of the European Union to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein on 1 September 2025. On 18 September 2025, he presented his credentials to Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter.
Andreas Künne looks back on a career spanning more than 30 years in the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has served in various positions in German bilateral embassies abroad, as well as in the Foreign Office, the Federal Chancellery and the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU in Brussels. Most recently, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Czechia.
Andreas Künne was born in Augsburg in 1966. He studied history, American and English studies at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Mississippi and the University of Hamburg.
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