Hanspeter Mock, Swiss Ambassador to Spain

Hanspeter Mock was born in 1966 in Mexico City, and is originally from Chardonne (canton of Vaud) and Herisau (canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden). Mr. Mock holds a degree in Law from the University of Lausanne. A specialist in human rights and author of several publications on the subject, he joined the Public International Law Directorate of the Federal Department (Ministry) of Foreign Affairs as a scientific collaborator in 1993. Having passed the diplomatic exam in 1996, he did his internship in Lisbon and in the “Swiss Task Force - Second World War” in Bern, where he was later appointed diplomatic collaborator. Transferred to Paris in 2001 as First Embassy Secretary and later as Advisor in charge of legal and press affairs, in 2005 he took up this role at the Swiss Mission to the European Union, where he coordinated matters relating to police and judicial cooperation (Schengen) and also served as spokesperson for the Mission. In 2007, he was appointed second deputy head of mission with ministerial rank. Returning to Bern in August 2009, he served as second deputy head of the FDFA/FDEA (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Federal Department of Economic Affairs) Office of European Integration, responsible for policy coordination. From January 2013, Mr. Mock was Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Directorate for European Affairs at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern. On August 26, 2014, Ambassador Hanspeter Mock was accredited as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Switzerland to the Government of the Republic of Argentina. From 2018 to 2020, he served as the Swiss Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of the Maldives. Since September 1, 2020, Mr. Mock has been Switzerland's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Ambassador Mock is a member of the Scientific Committee of the leading French-language legal journal on human rights (“Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l'Homme”), as well as of the “Council for International Relations” of the International Institute of Human Rights (Buenos Aires). He is also honorary academic of the Real Academia de la Diplomacia del Reino de España.