What is Joseph Deiss?
{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Joseph Deiss | image = Joseph Deiss, 2010 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | order = | office = [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]] | term_start = September 14, 2010 | term_end = September 14, 2011 | vicepresident = [[Mark Lyall Grant]] | predecessor = [[Ali Abdussalam Treki]] | successor = [[Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser]] | office2 = [[Member of the Swiss Federal Council]] | term_start2 = 1999 | term_end2 = 2006 | predecessor2 = [[Flavio Cotti]] | successor2 = [[Doris Leuthard]] | office3 = [[President of the Swiss Confederation|President of Switzerland]] | term_start3 = January 1, 2004 | term_end3 = December 31, 2004 | vicepresident3 = [[Samuel Schmid]] | viceprimeminister3 = | deputy3 = | president3 = | primeminister3 = | predecessor3 = [[Pascal Couchepin]] | successor3 = [[Samuel Schmid]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|01|18}} | birth_place = [[Fribourg (city)|Fribourg]], [[Switzerland]] | nationality = Swiss | party = [[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|CVP/PDC]] | profession = Economist | spouse = | children = 3 | signature = Signature of Joseph Deiss.png |}} '''Joseph Deiss''' (born January 18, 1946) is a [[Swiss]] [[politician]]. He is a member of the [[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC)]]. He was a member of the [[Swiss Federal Council]] from 1999 to 2006, heading first the [[Federal Department of Foreign Affairs]] (1999–2002) and then the [[Federal Department of Economic Affairs]] (2003–2006). He was elected [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]] for its 65th session in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last=Emch|first=Rita|title=Swiss named president of UN General Assembly|url=http://www.swissinf