Beatrice Maser, a Swiss Ambassador, serves as Executive Director at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., representing Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Switzerland. Previously, she worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as Special Representative for Western Europe in Paris and Regional Director for the MENA region in Cairo. From 2015 to 2019, she was the Ambassador of Switzerland to Vietnam, and from 2008 to 2015, she led Switzerland’s Economic Cooperation and Development, also serving as Swiss Governor to the AfDB, ADB, IDB, MIGA, and as IDA-Deputy. Earlier, she headed Switzerland’s Export and Investment Promotion and represented the country at the Paris Club and the OECD Export Credit Arrangement. She has also worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. Her career began at Swiss Bank Corporation in Zurich and New York. Beatrice Maser holds a Master’s degree in Architecture, Postgraduate Studies on Developing Countries from ETH Zurich, and an Executive MBA in Business Engineering from the University of St. Gallen.
