Christian Dussey (left) talking to former Swiss foreign minister, Didier Burkhalter, at an international conference on European security in Geneva. (Archive picture).
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The government has appointed Christian Dussey as new chief of the Swiss intelligence service.
The 55-year-old diplomat will take up his post next April and replace Jean-Philipp Gaudin who stepped down last August.
Dussey has been Swiss ambassador to Iran since December 2020. During his professional career he worked for the former military intelligence service and held various positions in the foreign ministry, according to a government press release on Wednesday.
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