Eva Herzog | |
Office: | President of the Council of States |
Term Start: | 4 December 2023 |
Predecessor: | Brigitte Häberli-Koller |
Office1: | Member of the Council of States |
Termstart1: | 2 December 2019 |
Office2: | Member of the State Council in Basel-Stadt |
Termstart2: | 2005 |
Termend2: | 2020 |
Website: | https://evaherzog.ch |
Birth Date: | df=yes 25 December 1962 |
Birth Place: | Basel, Switzerland |
Alma Mater: | University of Basel |
Education: | History |
Party: | Social Democratic Party |
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).
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 in History in 1994.[1]
Between 1995 and 2000 she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace in Basel. From 2001 until 2004 she was employed as a scientific collaborator at the University of Basel.
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, 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. 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.