Ambassador Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch is Head of the World Trade, Member of the Executive Board, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) y in Berne since April 2007. She is responsible for World Trade (WTO, Free Trade Agreements/EFTA and OECD).

From 1995 - 1999 she was Head of the Division WTO, OECD and public procurement at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) in Berne. She was responsible for the preparation and coordination of the overall position of Switzerland in WTO negotiations and represents Switzerland in the Doha negotiations on market access for industrial products and the relationship between trade and environment.

Before joining the WTO Division she was member of the negotiating team for investment protection agreements and worked in the legal service of the former Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. In 1992/1993, just after the accession of Switzerland to the Bretton Woods institutions, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch worked as the Assistant to the Executive Director of the Swiss constituency in the World Bank.