Personnel Vincenzo Mascioli appointed new State Secretary for Migration

Vincenzo Mascioli will become the new State Secretary for Migration and head of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) at the beginning of 2025. The 54-year-old is currently Deputy Director of the SEM and succeeds Christine Schraner Burgener, who is leaving the post at the end of the year.

The Federal Council appointed Mascioli as the new State Secretary on Wednesday. He is a trained secondary school teacher and has worked in various functions in the Federal Administration since 2005, namely on the personal staff of former SP Federal Council members Simonetta Sommaruga and Moritz Leuenberger.

Mascioli is just as familiar with the international dimension of migration as he is with Swiss domestic policy, the Federal Council wrote. He has extensive diplomatic and political knowledge as well as strong communication and negotiation skills.

It has been known since May that the current State Secretary Christine Schraner Burgener will be leaving the SEM at the end of the year. The former top diplomat is moving to the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).