New Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Frank Büchel, the new Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Büchel served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association in Geneva since 2021, directing the third-country trade relations division in the Association’s Secretariat.

From 2014 to 2021, he was the Liechtenstein member of the board of the Association’s Surveillance Authority in Brussels, responsible for the free movement of services, capital, and persons, as well as the enforcement of competition rules within the European Economic Area in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Between 2007 and 2013, he provided independent advisory services to regulators and companies in network and related industries, with a particular focus on telecommunications.  He worked in the same field at the Association’s Surveillance Authority from 2002 to 2007.

Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Director of the independent national regulatory authority for telecommunications and broadcasting in Vaduz, Liechtenstein from 1999 to 2002.

Mr. Büchel has a law degree from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, obtained a Master of Laws in Comparative Law from the University of Miami School of Law, United States, and completed post-graduate studies in European Commission Competition Law at King’s College London, United Kingdom.

He was admitted as an attorney-at-law to the New York Bar in 1999 and as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2005.

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