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Simonetta Sommaruga

President, Switzerland

Age: 61

Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga (14 May 1960) is a Swiss politician who was a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2010. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served as the President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 2020.

Simonetta was a former director of the Consumer Protection Foundation, which merged into the Swiss Alliance of Consumer Organisations in 2010. In 2014 and 2019, she served as Vice President of Switzerland and assumed the role of President in 2015 before returning to the position in 2020. She has headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications since 2019 and had previously led the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2018 to 2018.

Simonettaimon’s political career began as a member of the Grand Council of Bern from 1981 to 1990. In 1999, she was elected to the National Council, and in 2003, she became a member of the Federal Assembly’s upper house, the Council of States, representing the canton of Bern.

On 22 September 2010, Simonetta was elected as a member of the Swiss Federal Council and was gradually elected for a full four-year term in 2011, before successfully seeking reelection in 2015 and 2019. On 4 December 2013, she was elected as Vice President of Switzerland by the Federal Assembly for 2014, and on 3 December 2014, she was elected to the presidency for 2015.

Born in Zug, Simonetta grew up with two brothers and a sister in Sins, Aargau. She is a trained pianist at the Lucerne School of Music of Lucerne University. She pursued English and Romance studies at the University of Fribourg from 1988 to 1991 but did not graduate.

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