Martin Godel is a highly accomplished professional with a wealth of experience in international trade, economic policy, and business development. He has a strong academic background, having obtained a Master's degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts and Harvard University, as well as a Licence (BA&MA) in International Relations from the University of Geneva. Godel has worked in various positions in the service of the Swiss Confederation, including as a member of the Swiss delegation to the OECD Trade Committee and as the Swiss delegate for horizontal GATS-negotiations during part of the Doha Round. He also spent four years as the Head of the Swiss Business Hub Japan at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tokyo, where he supported Swiss and Japanese companies in their strategic decision-making in the field of business development. Godel later returned to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), where he assumed the responsibility for Switzerland's Small and Medium-Size Enterprise Policy, including the reduction of regulatory costs for SMEs and access to financing. He was also in charge of the reform of the federal tax holiday regime on regional aid and led the negotiations with the European Commission and the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP). Since 2017, Godel has been leading the national project for a single platform for Government-to-Business transactions, EasyGov.swiss. In 2020, he was responsible for the implementation of the Federal Covid-19-Liquidity program, which provided more than 137,000 companies with 17 billion Swiss Franc within a few weeks. Godel's expertise is highly valued internationally, having been a member (and later Vice-President) of the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) from 2010 until 2021. Since 2021, he has been chairing the OECD Committee on SME's and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE) after chairing its predecessor, the OECD Working Group on SMEs and Entrepreneurship. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Promotion Activities Directorate in SECO, where he oversees Regional Policy, Tourism Policy, Foreign Economic Promotion Policy, and SME Policy.