Katrin Eggenberger (born 8 September 1982) is a Swiss-Liechtensteiner academic and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein from November 2019 to March 2021.
Katrin Eggenberger was born in Werdenberg,Switzerland to a Swiss father and Liechtensteiner mother.[1] Her maternal uncle,Josef Biedermann,was a long-term member of the Liechtenstein parliament and former President of the Progressive Citizens' Party.[1] She is a dual citizen,[1] however she has spent the majority of her life living outside Liechtenstein.[2] She returned to live in Vaduz permanently in October 2019.[3]
Eggenberger worked at number of banks in Vaduz and Switzerland before becoming Chief of Staff to Klaus Schwab and Head of the Community of chairpersons at the World Economic Forum in 2016.[7][11] She was responsible for building a global,digital platform for startups,companies,universities and governments.[1]
Eggenberger has been a member of the Progressive Citizens' Party since 2019,[4] when she was unanimously nominated by the party to the Parliament.[12] She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by Alois,Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein on 11 November 2019,replacing Aurelia Frick,[7] and sworn in by Prime MinisterAdrian Hasler.[13] She was responsible for the ministries of justice and culture as well as foreign affairs.[13] Her completion of the Yale fellowship in 2019 caused her to miss four of her first six government meetings.[14]
Emmenegger, Patrick; Eggenberger, Katrin (2018). "State sovereignty, economic interdependence and US extraterritoriality: the demise of Swiss banking secrecy and the re-embedding of international finance". Journal of International Relations and Development. 21 (3): 798–823. doi:10.1057/s41268-017-0088-y. S2CID149206725.
Eggenberger, Katrin (2018). "When is blacklisting effective? Stigma, sanctions and legitimacy: the reputational and financial costs of being blacklisted". Review of International Political Economy. 25 (4): 483–504. doi:10.1080/09692290.2018.1469529. S2CID158191498.
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