Olivier Français | |
Office1: | Member of the Council of States of Switzerland |
Term Start1: | 11 November 2015 |
Office2: | Member of the National Council of Switzerland |
Term Start2: | 3 December 2007 |
Term End2: | 29 November 2015 |
Constituency: | Vaud |
Birth Date: | 1955 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Metz, France |
Party: | The Liberals |
Olivier Français is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.
Français was born into a French family in Metz, France to a mother from Grenoble and a father from Alsace-Lorraine. Due to his fathers work, he travelled to Geneva often in childhood. He moved to Lausanne and became a Swiss citizen in 1988 to participate in politics.[1] He was elected to the National Council in 2007 and 2015, and elected to the Council of States in 2019.[2]