Maya Graf | |
Office: | Member of the Council of States |
Term Start: | 4 December 2019 |
Predecessor: | Claude Janiak |
Office2: | Member of the National Council of Switzerland |
Term Start2: | 5 June 2001 |
Term End2: | 3 December 2019 |
Successor2: | Florence Brenzikofer |
Office3: | President of the National Council |
Term Start3: | 26 November 2012 |
Term End3: | 25 November 2013 |
Predecessor3: | Hansjörg Walter |
Successor3: | Ruedi Lustenberger |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1962 |
Birth Place: | Sissach, Switzerland |
Party: | Green Party of Switzerland |
Maya Graf (born 28 February 1962) is a Swiss politician. She is a member of the Council of States from the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. From 2001 to 2019, she was a member of the National Council of Switzerland. From 2012 to 2013, she was the president of the council, the first member of the Green Party to hold that seat.[1]
Graf was first elected to the National Council in 2001 and has been re-elected ever since.[2] She was elected President of the National Council in 2012 with 173 out of 189 delegates voting in her favour.[3]
Graf is married and has two children.[4] She is the daughter of former SVP politician Fritz Graf.[5] Graf was as a social worker before she started to run an organic farm together with her brother.