Béatrice Métraux

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Béatrice Métraux (2012)

Béatrice Métraux (born August 11, 1955 in Arcachon , France ) is a French- Swiss lawyer and politician ( GPS ).

Métraux completed a Master -Studies of public law at the University of Lille-Northern France . She also holds a degree from the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne and a diploma from the Geneva University Institute for European Studies ( Institut universitaire d'études européennes ).

She worked in various courts in the canton of Vaud and for over 18 years in the federal administration, first in the Federal Office for Refugees and then in the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law . From 1980 to 2000 she worked several times in Africa, for example as a lawyer in a Senegalese law firm and for a Swiss development aid organization in Rwanda and Mali .

She was first politically involved in the community of Bottens , of which she became mayor in 2011. From 2007 she was a member of the Parliament of the Canton of Vaud. On January 10, 2012, Métraux was elected as a candidate for the Greens in the State Council of the Canton of Vaud and has since headed the Department of the Interior . She was re-elected in 2017.

Béatrice Métraux has lived in Switzerland since 1981. She is married and has three sons.

Publications (selection)

In several publications, Métraux has dealt with problems of racism, Muslim family law as well as fundamental questions about the Internet, relations with the European Community and economic issues.

  • Mesures juridiques existantes dans les Etats membres du Conseil de l'Europe en vue de combattre le racisme et l'intolérance ECRI / ISDC, Strasbourg, 1998
  • Racisme et Internet .ECRI / ISDC, Strasbourg, août 2000
  • Le droit musulman de la famille et des successions à l'épreuve des ordres juridiques occidentaux . Ouvrage ISDC, 1999
  • Conséquences institutionalnelles de l'appartenance aux Communautés européennes (1991)
  • Agriculture suisse, questions choisies d'une catastrophe annoncée (2003). Mélanges en l'honneur de Pierre Widmer / ISDC.
  • Cross-border gambling on the Internet . ISDC / Zurich, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Béatrice Métraux et Cesla Amarelle élues au Conseil d'Etat vaudois . In: rts.ch . ( rts.ch [accessed on May 21, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Métraux, Béatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss lawyer and politician (GPS)
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Arcachon , France