Anne Petitpierre

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Anne Petitpierre-Sauvain (born  September 21, 1943 in Geneva ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). She has been a professor at the University of Geneva since 1993 and was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1987 to 2005 , including as its vice-president from 1998 to 2005.

biography

Anne Petitpierre was 1943 in Geneva was born and received after studying law at the University of Geneva in 1966 for leave to lawyer . From 1977 to 1985 she was a member of the Grand Conseil , the parliament of the Canton of Geneva . From 1987 she taught at the University of Geneva, from which she was appointed professor of commercial and environmental law in 1993 .

From 1987 to 2005 she was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as its vice-president from 1998 to 2005. After leaving the ICRC, she was made an honorary member. In addition, she was temporarily President of WWF Switzerland .

Anne Petitpierre is married to the former Geneva National Councilor and Councilor of States, Gilles Petitpierre .

Works (selection)

  • Environmental Law in Switzerland. The Hague 1999
  • Swiss private law. Basel and Munich 2006 (as co-author)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anne Petitpierre. In: Peter Fenkart, Ruth Fenkart: Halftime. Fifty 50-year-olds on Switzerland: provocations, options, visions. Werd, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-85-932125-0 , p. 153
  2. ↑ a b The Author. In: Environmental Law in Switzerland. Kluwer Law International, The Hague 1999, ISBN 9-04-111271-5 , p. 1
  3. ↑ a b c Biographies. Anne Petitpierre-Sauvain, Prof. Dr., Université de Genève. In: Ruth Kaufmann (Red.), Paul Burger (Red.), Martine Stoffel (Red.): Sustainability Research - Perspectives in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Published by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-907835-61-6 , p. 365/366
  4. ↑ Les femmes radicales poussent Anne Petit Pierre au Conseil fédéral.
personal data
SURNAME Petitpierre, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petitpierre-Sauvain, Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, politician (FDP) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva