Markus Leitner was born in 1966 in Zurich and has been serving as the Swiss Ambassador to the United Kingdom since August 2021. He completed his studies with a degree in Economics at the Zurich University of Applied Science and the University of Fribourg. After various positions in the private sector, he joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1996, with early diplomatic training in Berne and Madrid, followed by various roles dealing with Swiss financial center issues and positions at embassies in Pretoria, Santiago de Chile, and as Head of the Peace Policy Section as well as Deputy Head of the Human Security Division in Berne. He was appointed Ambassador of Switzerland in Egypt in 2013 and later to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2017.
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