Location promotion and labour market
State Secretary Helene Budliger Artieda has appointed Martin Saladin as the new Head of the Directorate for Location Promotion and Martin Godel as the Head of the Labour Market and Unemployment Insurance Division. Both will assume their new positions on September 1, 2024, and will become members of the SECO management team.
According to a press release from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs(SECO), State Secretary Helene Budliger Artieda has appointed Martin Saladin as the new Head of the Directorate for Economic Promotion. She has also confirmed Martin Godel as the new Head of the Labour Market and Unemployment Insurance Division. Both will take up their new positions on 1 September 2024 and will thus become members of SECO’s Executive Board.
Martin Saladin will succeed Eric Jakob as Head of the Directorate for Location Promotion. Among other things, this supports Swiss companies that are facing increasingly global competition. According to the press release, Saladin has international experience and is familiar with the challenges faced by Swiss companies on international markets. For the past five years, he was Head of Operations South/East at SECO’s Economic Cooperation and Development Division, where he managed the project business with an annual investment volume of CHF 350 million.
Martin Godel will take over from Oliver Schärli as Head of the Labour Market and Unemployment Insurance Division on 1 September. Godel has been Deputy Head of the Directorate for Location Promotion since 2014 and has been Head of SME Policy since 2011. He has extensive experience in the digitalisation of services. He has been responsible for the EasyGov.swiss service portal for the Confederation, cantons and communes since 2017.