Matyassy, Ambassador Johannes
(CEO Presence Switzerland)

Ambassador Johannes Matyassy is ambassador and CEO of Presence Switzerland as well as President of the Bern Cantonal FDP.

Prior to this, he held the posts of Secretary-General of the Swiss FDP (the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland) and as head of the secretariat of the Swiss-EUREKA chairmanship and the Cooperation and Coordination section at the DFA/DEA Integration office where he specialised in preparing and implementing the Swiss chairmanship of EUREKA. In his earlier career, Ambassador Matyassy worked as deputy director of the World trade GATT division at BAWI specialising in agriculture and market access for industrial products, as Chief of Staff of the Swiss negotiating delegation at the Uruguay Round, and as director of the economic and trade division at the Swiss embassy in Argentina.