Livia Leu Agosti

Livia Leu Agosti is a Swiss diplomat. She is the first female ambassador of Switzerland to France and former Swiss Ambassador to Iran. She served as the ambassador in 2008, succeeding Philip Walty. Agosti was the first European female ambassador and the second female ambassador to serve in Iran after Sierra Leone's Ambassador, Hajia Alari Cole.[1][2]

Livia Leu Agosti
Leu Agosti
Swiss Ambassador
In office
2018–present
Personal details
Born1961 (age 61–62)
Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Alma materGraduate Institute of International Studies
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionDiplomat

Career

She was previously a member of the Swiss delegation to the United Nations in New York, the vice chairman of the Swiss delegation in Cairo, and a member of the group responsible for dealing with the nuclear program of Iran.[3]

Leu Agosti meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. in June 2021.

Before serving as the Ambassador to Iran, Agosti was the head of the African and European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. Leu Agosti, has brought her sons, along with her husband, to Iran.

Her husband, who is a biologist, an expert, and a researcher in the field of ants, is busy working in Iran. Before her departure,[4] she announced that she would send her children to a German school in Iran.

In 2018 she became the first woman to be the Swiss Ambassador to France.[5]

See also

References
  1. Tait, Robert (15 January 2009). "Swiss ambassador is first female envoy to Iran since revolution" – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. Livia Leu Agosti ambassadeur au SECO
  3. Switzerland’s first female ambassador in Paris
  4. swissinfo.ch, S. W. I.; Corporation, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting. "Former Ambassador Livia Leu Agosti honoured". SWI swissinfo.ch.
  5. swissinfo.ch, S. W. I.; Corporation, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting. "Switzerland's first female ambassador in Paris". SWI swissinfo.ch.
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