Ambassador Jürg Lauber is Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Prior to taking up this appointment on 1 April 2026, he served as Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and other Organizations in Geneva from September 2020 to March 2026 and, previously, as Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York, from 2015, at which time he also served as President of the Burundi Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Conference on Disarmament. 

Before joining the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1993 he worked in peacekeeping missions in Namibia (UNTAG) and Korea (Panmunjom). Between 2007 and 2009 he served as chef de cabinet to the president of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as head of the United Nations and International Organizations Division in Bern. Jürg Lauber has a law degree from the University of Zurich.