Eva Herzog | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2019 | |
President of the Council of States | |
Assumed office 4 December 2023 | |
Preceded by | Brigitte Häberli-Koller |
Member of the Council of States | |
Assumed office 2 December 2019 | |
Member of the State Council in Basel-Stadt | |
In office 2005–2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Basel, Switzerland | 25 December 1962
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Education | History |
Alma mater | University of Basel |
Website | https://evaherzog.ch |
Eva Herzog (born 25 December 1962) is a Swiss politician who has represented Basel-Stadt in the Council of States since 2019 and has served as the President of the Council since 2023. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).
Education
Between 1981 and 1988 she studied History, Economics and Spanish at the University in Basel and University of Santiago de Compostela and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a Doctorate degree in History in 1994.[1]
Professional career
Between 1995 and 2000 she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace Kaserne 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 group 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 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.[5] As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council.[6]
In 2010 she was a candidate for the Federal Council[7] as a successor for the resigning Moritz Leuenberger.[8] But in the elections Simonetta Sommaruga was elected.[9] After in November 2022 Simmonetta Sommaruga announced her resignation,[10] she and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider became the candidate for Sommarug's succession.[11] On the 7 December Baume-Schneider was elected to the Federal Council and a week later Eva Herzog to the Vice-Presidency to the Council of States.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d "Eva Herzog". SP Basel-Stadt (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Wahl- und Abstimmungsergebnisse (Archiv)". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Eva Herzog kandidiert – Claude Janiak verzichtet". www.onlinereports.ch (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Basler Finanzdirektorin Eva Herzog hört Ende Januar 2020 auf". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in Swiss High German). 20 May 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Glanzresultat - Eva Herzog ist neue Basler Ständerätin". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 20 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Artikel Detail". Radio X (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Eine Basler Kandidatur für den Bundesrat | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Zürcher SP-Nationalrätin Jacqueline Fehr will Bundesrätin werden". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 26 August 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Simonetta Sommaruga ist gewählt | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Biner, David (3 November 2022). "Bundesrat: Simonetta Sommaruga tritt per Ende Jahr zurück". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Eva Herzog beerbt Elisabeth Baume-Schneider im Ständeratspräsidium". SWI swissinfo.ch (in German). 14 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.