Yvette Jaggi

Yvette Jaggi

Yvette Jaggi (* 11. February 1941 in Lausanne ; heimatberechtigt in Gsteig and Lausanne) is a Swiss politician ( SP ), the National Council , the first Vaud Councilor and President first city of Lausanne.

Life and politics

Born as the daughter of the bank clerk Ernest François and the housewife Esther Julie, Yvette Jaggi attended the secondary school for girls from 1951 to 1957 and the girls' high school in Lausanne from 1957 to 1960. There she graduated from the university in 1964 with a degree in humanities (majoring in history) and a degree in political science. In 1970 she did her doctorate in political science with a thesis on concentration processes in retail. She received several awards for her dissertation, including a prize from the Société académique vaudoise and in 1971 the medal from the Académie des sciences commerciales de Paris . After Jaggi had worked for the Innovation department store in Lausanne from 1964 to 1969 and for Coop in Basel from 1969 to 1971 , she was responsible for scholarships for young talent at the Swiss National Science Foundation in Bern from 1971 to 1973 . She then headed the Fédération romande des consommatrices from 1973 to 1979 . 1978–1985 she taught consumer sociology at the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Lausanne and 1980–1985 Economics at the Department of Electricity, later at the Department of Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne . From the 1960s she wrote for the weekly Domaine public .

In 1972 Jaggi joined the Social Democratic Party (SP). She made her political career on a national and local level. So she sat in the National Council from 1979 to 1987 and in the Council of States from 1987 to 1991. 1980–1986 she was a member of the party executive of the SP Switzerland, from 1982 as Vice President, and 1981–1985 she was in charge of the SP Women Switzerland . She was also a member of several extra-parliamentary commissions from the late 1970s. At the municipal level, she worked in the Lausanne city parliament from 1982 to 1985, before she was elected to the city government in 1986, where she took over the financial management. 1990–1997 she was mayor of Lausanne. From 1990–1998 she worked on the board of the Swiss Association of Cities , which she presided over from 1996. She was also the co-presidium of the Vaud Constitutional Council from 1999–2002.

Jaggi was a member of the supervisory board of the Crédit foncier vaudois from 1978–1995 and a member of the bank council from 1992–2002 and, from 1994, the banking committee of the Swiss National Bank . She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Federal Railways from 1999 to 2005 . From 1998–2005 she was President of Pro Helvetia . In addition, she taught as a private lecturer from 1998–2001 and as a deputy professor of geography at the University of Lausanne from 2001–2006, where she gave lectures on the conditions of urban life. From 2002–2010 she headed the Europan Europe program (Europe Program Architecture Nouvelle).

Jaggi has been involved in the women's movement since the beginning of her political career and became one of its leading representatives. From 1986 to 2002, she worked in the Swiss Committee of Actions, not Words , and took part in the women's strike on June 14, 1991 as mayor. She also campaigned for economic and cultural promotion, for example as President 2006–2015 of the Association pour la solidarité et la création d'entreprises (since 2009 Foundation Microcrédit solidaire suisse) and 2007–2014 as Chair of the Les Urbaines Foundation , which current artistic creation supported.

Jaggi has received several awards, including the Medaille d'or of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe in 1996, the Medal of the Olympic Order in 1997, an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) in 2002 and the Commander's Cross of the French Ordre national du Mérite in 2013 .

Works

• Yvette Jaggi: Le phénomène de concentration dans le secteur de la distribution en relation avec l'avènement de la société de consommation massive , dissertation, University of Lausanne, 1970.
• Yvette Jaggi: Politique économique extérieure, défense nationale économique , 1983.
• Yvette Jaggi: Ce n'est pas le moment de mollir , 1991.

Web links

• Thierry Rossier: Yvette Jaggi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed July 24, 2019 .
• Yvette Jaggi on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Christophe Büchi: Yvette Jaggi. La politique en toutes choses , in: Plans-fixes , 1998 ( video 49 min)

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