Ursula Wyss

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Ursula Wyss (2018)

Ursula Wyss (born February 8, 1973 in Davos ; resident in Buchholterberg and Köniz ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ).

She has been a member of the Bern city government since January 1, 2013 and heads the Directorate for Civil Engineering, Transport and Urban Greenery (TVS) .

biography

In 1992 Wyss passed the Matura at the Gymnase Numa Droz in Neuchâtel. She then studied economics and general ecology at the University of Bern , the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and the Technical University of Berlin . In 1997 she graduated with a licentiate in Bern. After positions at the Bureau for Labor and Social Policy Studies (BASS) and WWF Switzerland , she was a research assistant at the Institute for Economics at the University of Bern from 2001 to 2005. In 2006 she received her PhD in Dr. rer. oec.

Ursula Wyss lives with her partner, Thomas Christen , and their two sons in Bern .

politics

In 1989 Wyss joined the SP. From 1997 to 1999 she was on the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern .

Wyss was elected to the National Council in the 1999 elections and re-elected in 2003, 2007 and 2011. From 2004 to 2006 she was Vice President of the SP Switzerland and from 2006 to 2012 President of the SP parliamentary group in the Federal Palace. Wyss was a member of the Commission for Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy (UREK), the Finance Commission and the office of the National Council .

On March 6, 2011 she was defeated as a candidate for the runoff election in the Council of States with 49.4% to the SVP representative Adrian Amstutz .

Her political priorities at the national level were environmental, climate and energy policy, European and educational policy.

On November 25, 2012, Ursula Wyss was elected to the five-member government of the city of Bern with the best result. On December 11, 2012, she submitted her resignation as National Councilor on March 3, 2013. Wyss had already announced this step in the run-up to the elections to the city government, should it be elected. Her successor in the National Council is the Bernese Grand Councilor Nadine Masshardt . Ursula Wyss is the director of civil engineering, traffic and urban greenery in the Bern city government. At the end of November 2016, she was re-elected as a councilor, but was defeated in the second ballot against Alec von Graffenried in the election of Bern mayor .

At the urban level, Ursula Wyss focuses on promoting pedestrian and bicycle traffic. With the “Velo-Offensive” launched in 2014, Bern is set to become the cycling capital of Switzerland and by 2030 to double the proportion of cyclists. Another focus is public space and its use by the population. In her position paper "Planning and designing in the age of pop-ups", Wyss shows the way for such projects.

For many years, Wyss was a board member of the Bern section of the Swiss Transport Club (VCS), a member of the Energy Science Center (ESC) patronage committee at ETH Zurich and the Association for the Promotion of Communication and Media Studies (IKMB) at the University of Bern . She was also a member of the non-partisan group Narcotics Act. How next? . Today she is a member of the advisory board of the GEWA Foundation for Professional Integration.

Publications

  • Forms of working time and leisure behavior. A time budget study. Research Institute for Leisure and Tourism, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-905666-04-9 (dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directorate for Civil Engineering, Transport and Urban Greenery. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SP parliamentary group leader Ursula Wyss is not running for Council of States in: NZZ Online from April 24, 2011
  3. ↑ Ursula Wyss gives birth to son in: Tages-Anzeiger from September 20, 2011
  4. ↑ Amstutz wins by a hair's breadth. Tages Anzeiger Online / Newsnetz, March 6, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Election results on bern.ch , accessed December 1, 2012
  6. ↑ sda: Ursula Wyss resigns , NZZ online from December 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ election results. City of Bern, January 15, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Ursula Wyss: Position paper Ursula Wyss «Planning and designing public space in Bern in the age of pop-up». City of Bern , June 6, 2018, accessed on April 19, 2019 . Download
personal data
SURNAME Wyss, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Davos