Lukas Gresch-Brunner

Main areas of expertise.

• Expertise in regulatory and political issues at federal, cantonal and EU level
• Providing strategic and communication advice to and positioning companies and private individuals on regulatory and political matters at all levels of the state and on all political issues as well as on crisis situations
• Expertise on issues relating to Swiss-EU relations, the positioning of companies in the European single market and in regulatory issues related to the Swiss-EU bilateral agreements, in particular in the areas of free movement of persons, economic, financial and tax issues, infrastructure and transport, education and research, health and energy
• Extensive experience and networks in the Swiss Parliament and in the cantons, in particular in Central and Western Switzerland

Experience.

Lukas Gresch-Brunner was Secretary General of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) from 2020 to 2024, before which he served for eight years as State Chancellor of the Canton of Lucerne, and thus Chief of Staff of the Lucerne Government and Secretary General of the Cantonal Parliament. This followed a 12-year high-level career within the Federal Administration, including Deputy Head of the Division Europe of the Federal Departments of Foreign and Economic Affairs and Advisor to Federal Councillor Joseph Deiss and Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard.

Gresch-Brunner studied International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute and European Politics at the College of Europe in Bruges.