<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Heinrich Schellenberg will replace Hanspeter Mock as Swiss ambassador to Spain and will take up the post at the end of this summer, according to sources from the Swiss Embassy informed <em>The Diplomat</em>.</strong></h4> Born in 1964 in Zurich to a Spanish mother, which allows him to speak Spanish fluently, Heinrich Schellenberg joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1991. From 2007 to 2010, he served as deputy at the Swiss Embassy in Mexico, from 2010 to 2014, as Consul General in Shanghai, from 2014 to 2018, as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and from 2018 to 2022, as head of the Swiss Embassy in Argentina. From that year until now, he served as director of the Asia-Pacific division of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For his part, Hanspeter Mock, after officially taking leave of his post on July 10th at a reception at the Embassy (coinciding with the National Day of the Swiss Confederation), will move to Brazil to lead the Embassy in that country. Hanspeter Mock assumed the position of ambassador to Spain in September 2020, replacing Giulio Haas, who had just retired after three years in Madrid. Before arriving in Spain, Mock served as ambassador to Argentina from 2014 to 2018 and to Sri Lanka and the Maldives from 2018 to 2020. <div class="lRu31" dir="ltr"><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">His arrival in Spain coincided with one of the most intense periods of the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">In fact, Switzerland had already included Spain on its list of "high-risk" countries, requiring travelers from Spain to undergo a ten-day quarantine.</span></span></span> <div class="OvtS8d"></div> <div id="ow104"></div> </div> <div class="UdTY9 WdefRb" aria-hidden="true" data-location="2"></div>
