State Secretary and Director - SECO
Helene Budliger Artieda has been director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) since 1 August 2022. Prior to that, she was Switzerland’s ambassador in Bangkok/Thaïland, with additional accreditations to Cambodia and Laos. Until 2019, she held the same position in Pretoria/South Africa, with cross-accreditations to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mauritius and Namibia.
From 2008 to 2015, Helene Budliger Artieda was head of the Directorate for Resources at the Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (FDFA).
She holds a Federal VET Diploma in Commerce from the business school of Zurich, as well as a MBA from the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá.
