Organisation Of The Swiss Abroad Hit By Surprise Departure

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) After just nine months in the job Lukas Weber will step down as director of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) at the end of the year. He will be succeeded by Daniel Hunziker. This content was published on October 2, 2025 - 10:09 4 minutes

I write about political developments and social issues that are relevant for the Swiss Abroad. As part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's "dialogue" project, I further aim to encourage multilingual debates between the Swiss Abroad and people living in Switzerland. After graduating from the MAZ School of Journalism, I worked as a program director at a local radio station in Basel and reported on political, economic, social and cultural topics. I have been working for SWI swissinfo since 2023.

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It's been an eventful year for the OSAExternal link , which represents the interests of Swiss citizens living abroad. For the first time, part of the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA) was filled by direct electronic elections. Then at the end of August the first“SwissCommunity Days” took place in Bern, marking the start of the new legislative period of the CSA.

Now there is another event: Lukas Weber, who took over the post of OSA director from Ariane Rustichelli in mid-April, is stepping down at the end of the year.

“We have jointly decided to go our separate ways at the end of the year,” said OSA President Filippo Lombardi. It was important, he said, for the organisation to have a new director on board quickly to succeed Rustichelli, particularly in view of the SwissCommunity Days in spring.“We found this person in Lukas Weber. He did his job well and the SwissCommunity Days were a success,” says Lombardi.

Read our coverage of the first SwissCommunity Days in Bern:

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