Chief, Federal Dept. of Defense, Civil Protection, & Sports
Ueli MAURER
Chief, Federal Dept. of Economic Affairs
Johann SCHNEIDER-AMMANN
Chief, Federal Dept. of Finance
Eveline WIDMER-SCHLUMPF
Chief, Federal Dept. of Foreign Affairs
Micheline CALMY-REY
Chief, Federal Dept. of Home Affairs
Didier BURKHALTER
Chief, Federal Dept. of Justice & Police
Simonetta SOMMARUGA
Chief, Federal Dept. of Transportation, Communications, & Energy
Doris LEUTHARD
Federal Chancellor
Corina CASANOVA
Chmn., Swiss National Bank
Philipp HILDEBRAND
Ambassador to the US
Urs ZISWILER
Permanent Representative to the UN, New York
Paul SEGER
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Switzerland on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Switzerland Chiefs of State 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Switzerland Chiefs of State 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
