Eva Herzog

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Eva Herzog
Eva Herzog (2019).jpg
Member of the Council of States
Assumed office
2019
Member of the State Council in Basel-Stadt
In office
2005–2020
Websitehttps://evaherzog.ch

Eva Herzog (born 1962, Basel) is a politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP) of Switzerland and a member of the Council of States.

Education[]

Between 1981 and 1988 she studied History, Economics and Spanish at the University in Basel and University of Santiago de Campostela and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a  [de] in History in 1994.[1]

Professional career[]

Between 1995 and 2000 she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace  [de] in Basel.[1] From 2001 until 2004 she was employed as a scientific collaborator at the University of Basel.[1]

Political career[]

She was elected in to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 2001[2] and in 2003 she assumed the presidency of the SP fraction in the Grand Council.[3] She remained a member of the Grand Council until 2005,[1] when she assumed as a member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt and onwards headed the finance department.[4] In 2010 she was a candidate for the Federal Council[5] as a successor of the resigning Moritz Leuenberger.[6] But in the elections Simmonetta Sommaruga was elected.[7] In May 2019, she announced that she would resign as a State Council of Basel in January 2020.[4] In October 2019 she was elected to the Council of States.[8] As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Eva Herzog". SP Basel-Stadt (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  2. ^ "Wahl- und Abstimmungsergebnisse (Archiv)". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. ^ http://www.cs2.ch, CS2-Creative Solutions GmbH- 4450 Sissach-. "Eva Herzog kandidiert – Claude Janiak verzichtet". www.onlinereports.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Basler Finanzdirektorin Eva Herzog hört Ende Januar 2020 auf". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in German). 20 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  5. ^ "Eine Basler Kandidatur für den Bundesrat | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  6. ^ "Zürcher SP-Nationalrätin Jacqueline Fehr will Bundesrätin werden". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  7. ^ "Simonetta Sommaruga ist gewählt | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  8. ^ "Glanzresultat - Eva Herzog ist neue Basler Ständerätin". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2019-10-20. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  9. ^ "Artikel Detail". Radio X (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
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