Corina Casanova | |
Office: | 15th Chancellor of Switzerland |
President: | Pascal Couchepin Hans-Rudolf Merz Doris Leuthard Micheline Calmy-Rey Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf Ueli Maurer Didier Burkhalter Simonetta Sommaruga |
Term Start: | 1 January 2008 |
Term End: | 31 December 2015 |
1Namedata: | Oswald Sigg Thomas Helbling André Simonazzi |
Predecessor: | Annemarie Huber-Hotz |
Successor: | Walter Thurnherr |
Office1: | Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland |
Alongside1: | Oswald Sigg |
Chancellor1: | Annemarie Huber-Hotz |
Term Start1: | 1 August 2005 |
Term End1: | 31 December 2007 |
Predecessor1: | Hanna Muralt Müller |
Successor1: | Thomas Helbling |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1956 |
Birth Place: | Ilanz, Switzerland |
Party: | Christian Democratic People's Party |
Alma Mater: | University of Fribourg |
Corina Casanova (born 4 January 1956) is a Swiss politician who was the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2008 and 2015.
Born in Ilanz, Graubünden, Casanova worked as a lawyer in the practice of the former President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Giusep Nay, as well as a Red Cross delegate in South Africa, Angola, Nicaragua and El Salvador. She was also a federal parliamentary official and advisor to Federal Councillors Flavio Cotti and Joseph Deiss, both of the Christian Democratic People's Party.
In August 2005, she was elected to the office of Vice-Chancellor by the Swiss Federal Assembly. In December 2007, that assembly elected her to the office of Chancellor in the course of the 2007 Swiss Federal Council election. In March 2008 she was designated by the Swiss Federal Council member of the directional committee for electronic government in Switzerland.
Casanova is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party and speaks six languages: Romansh, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish.
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