Patrick Gauchat
Patrick Gauchat (22 May 1968) is a Swiss General Officer.[1] He is the first Swiss to lead a UN Mission.[2]
Military career[edit]
Training and first command[edit]
Promotions[1]
- 1997 Captain
- 2004 Major
- 2006 Lieutenant Colonel
- 2009 Colonel
- 2017 Major General
After training, Gauchat took command of a mountain fusilier company (1997).
Service as a staff officer[edit]
As a staff officer, he performed various commanding duties, including commander of a mountain infantry battalion (from 2006), deputy commander of the Tenth Mountain Infantry Brigade 10 (2014–2015)[3] and deputy commander of Territorial Division 1 (2016–2017).[3]
Service in the rank of general[edit]
In 2017, he was appointed head of the Swiss delegation to the Neutral Monitoring Commission for the Armistice between the Two Koreas (NNSC).
Overseas assignments[edit]
- 2000 UN Military Observer, UNTSO, Middle East[1]
- 2004 Deputy Head of the Swiss Delegation NNSC, Korea[1]
- 2009 Head of Peacebuilding MONUSCO, later: MONUSCO, Congo und Somalia[1]
- 2011 Deputy Head of Mission UNTSO in Jerusalem[1]
- 2013 Commander Sector North (JRD-N) at NATO's KFOR-Mission in Kosovo[1]
- 2014 Senior Officer Middle EAst and Asia, HQ at UN, New York[1]
- 2017 Head of the Swiss delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) (Korea)[1]
- 2021 Head of Mission/Chief of Staff UNTSO[2]
Private life[edit]
Gauchat holds and engineering degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne[1][3] and is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Divisionär Patrick Gauchat. Chef der Schweizer Delegation NNSC. Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, 1. Januar 2018 (PDF; 268 kB).
- ^ a b Erstmals übernimmt ein Schweizer das Kommando über eine UNO-Friedensmission. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. 29. Oktober 2021.
- ^ a b c d Major General Patrick Gauchat of Switzerland – Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. Secretary-General of the United Nations, 28. Oktober 2021.