Nelly Wenger

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Nelly Wenger (born July 19, 1955 in Casablanca ) is the former general director of the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 . From 2004 to 2006 she was Country Manager at Nestlé Switzerland.

biography

Nelly Wenger was born in Morocco to French parents, the oldest of seven siblings. In 1973 she moved to Paris with her parents . From 1974 to 1979 she studied civil engineering at EPFL Lausanne . From 1991 she worked as a spatial planner for the canton of Vaud and received her doctorate from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Geneva .

In 1999 Nelly Wenger was appointed general director of the national exhibition Expo.01 (later Expo.02). After the departure of General Director Jacqueline Fendt , she took over the overall management of the project, Martin Heller was the artistic director . Wenger is still known today as the “Madame Expo”, the exhibition with 10.3 million admissions and a budget of 1.45 billion Swiss francs as a superlative project.

Wenger was Country Manager at Nestlé Switzerland from 2004 to 2006, but had to resign for health reasons. In 2012 it became known that Wenger had been entrusted with developing an art quarter with galleries, studios and international flair on the Paris Île Seguin - where Renault used to build cars - under the name R4.

Wenger is married to an architect and has lived in Switzerland for over 40 years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversation with Nelly Wenger: “I'm not looking for conflicts”. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Denise Lachat: The return of Nelly Wenger . April 3, 2010, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on February 6, 2019]).
  3. ↑ An island of art for Madame Expo. Tages-Anzeiger, July 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wenger, Nelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General director of the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca