Jacqueline Badran

Jacqueline Badran (2019)

Jacqueline Badran (born November 12, 1961 in Sydney , Australia ; legal resident in Zurich and Aussil ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ) and entrepreneur .

Life, education and work

Badran's mother was Swiss and her father a Lebanese who was part of the Christian majority in Lebanon at the time . He had emigrated to Australia in the 1920s and ran his own textile company. He had met Jacqueline Badran's mother on a business trip to the Zurich Hotel Baur au Lac . In 1966, at the age of five, Jacqueline Badran moved with her parents and her sister to Zurich , Switzerland , where she attended primary school and the Hohe Promenade canton school.

After two years in between traveling and exercising, she studied biology at the University of Zurich and graduated with a diploma. After a few professional years, she studied economics and political science at the University of St. Gallen in 1994 and graduated with a degree. There she was also involved in the environmental economics student initiative OIKOS. After completing her studies, she worked in the administration of St. Gallen in the economic development department and then in the financial administration of the Canton of Zurich. In 2000 she founded Zeix AG with two partners . She is the managing director, chairwoman of the board of directors and co-owner.

Badran survived serious disasters twice. In the 1990s, she said she was buried by the snow masses in an avalanche in the Engadine and was able to free herself on her own. In November 2001, she was on board Crossair flight 3597 with a business partner . The plane crashed near Bassersdorf , killing 24 people. Both of them survived the crash, slightly injured by happy circumstances; During the flight they had gone to the rear of the aircraft so as not to be disturbed.

Badran is married and lives in Zurich. She is a dual Australian-Swiss citizen .

politics

In 1991 she joined the Social Democratic Party (SP). First she was on the board of the section of District 7 of the city of Zurich for several years and was elected to the municipal council in 2002. There she was on the audit commission for eight years and switched to the urban development commission in 2011. For many years she was also active on the cantonal party executive and was the president of the cantonal SP environmental commission. She was elected to the Swiss National Council in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , and re-elected in the 2015 parliamentary elections. As part of her parliamentary work, she is a member of the National Council's Commission for Economy and Taxes. Badran also managed to be re-elected in the 2019 parliamentary elections.

An important focus of her political work is the regulation of housing and land . In 2011, the basic article on housing policy in the Zurich municipal ordinance entitled “Affordable housing for Zurich”, which it played a key role in, was adopted with 75.9% of the votes.

She already became known nationally as a local politician in Zurich through her consistent fight against the abolition of the Lex Koller , which was crowned with success in 2014. Since then she has been working on a proposal to tighten the law.

On several occasions she has been strongly committed to the preparation of counter-proposals to popular initiatives .

Web links

Commons : Jacqueline Badran  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jacqueline Badran on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Website by Jacqueline Badran
• Affiliations of Jacqueline Badran
• "Colon" program. (MP3; 52.9 MB) Roger Schawinski in conversation with Jacqueline Badran. In: Radio 1 from December 18, 2011 (55 minutes)
• Alex Baur : From “Züriberg” to “Chreis Cheib” . Portrait in: Die Weltwoche , 17/2012 from April 26, 2012
• David Schaffner: A loud voice for the radical restructuring of the economy. In: Tages-Anzeiger from August 20, 2012
• Martin Beglinger: The woman with four lives. Portrait in: Das Magazin from January 26, 2013
• Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Jacqueline Badran. Video in: SRF 1 from May 13, 2013 ( online, 28 minutes )
• Daria Wild: Housing policy is tough economic policy . In: Republic of September 17, 2018 ( Interview with Jaqueline Badran )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rebekka Haefeli: An accident rarely comes alone, Jacqueline Badran and her experiences in the snow. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 9, 2009
2. ↑ Othmar von Matt: Every 13th parliamentarian is a dual citizen. In: Switzerland on the weekend of July 29, 2018.
3. ↑ The high-flyers, the women, the voted out and the young . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on October 21, 2019]).
4. ↑ Jacqueline Badran: «Politics treats the soil like yoghurt» | Day of the week . In: TagesWoche . January 22, 2018 ( tageswoche.ch [accessed October 24, 2018]).
5. ^ Municipal vote November 27, 2011. Accessed October 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ The brilliant solo run of Jacqueline Badran . In: tagesanzeiger.ch/ . ( Tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed October 24, 2018]).