Marisa Bircher is a Foreign Trade graduate and specialist. She has developed professionally in international negotiations in the fields of economics, foreign trade and gender.
She worked in the private sector at the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), a Swiss multinational firm that provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. This company is considered a world reference regarding quality and integrity.
She started her career in the public sector in the Fundación ExportAr [ExportAr Foundation] -today known as the Agencia de Comercio Exterior e Inversiones [Foreign Trade and Investment Agency]- an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. There, she was in charge of the General Coordination of Technical Assistance to Companies in the process of exporting goods and services.
She also served as Secretary of Agro-Industrial Markets from 2015 to 2018 at the Ministry of Agriculture. In that position, she led the creation of over 200 agricultural markets in more than 40 countries, promoting trade agreements and international negotiations for a smart insertion of agro-industrial products in worldwide markets.
Afterwards, from 2018 to 2019, she worked at the Ministry of Production and Trade, where she became Secretary of Foreign Trade of the Argentine Nation. During her tenure (2015-2019) she was one of the Chief Negotiators who led the closing of the Mercosur Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and with the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) countries.
From 2020 to 2022, she was Secretary of Gender Equality for the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Her main goal was to promote women's economic autonomy in the market, increase women's participation in decision-making spaces and promote greater inclusion of women in technology and financial markets.
She currently works as an independent consultant advising the public sector in the design of policies that promote foreign trade and international economic negotiations growth. Likewise, she advises several exporting firms in the design of strategies to open new markets and strengthen the presence of Argentine goods and services worldwide.
She has participated in projects of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). During the last 15 years, she has been teaching Foreign Trade at the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA for its initials in Spanish) and has been a guest lecturer at several national and international academic institutions.