Ursula Wyss (born 8 February 1973 in Davos) is a Swiss politician and economist. She represented the Canton of Bern in the

Swiss National Council The National Council (german: Nationalrat; french: Conseil national; it, Consiglio nazionale; rm, Cussegl naziunal) is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the upper house being the Council of States. With 200 seats, the ...

as member of the

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz; SP; rm, Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra) or Swiss Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste suisse, it, Partito Socialista Svizzero; PS), is a polit ...

(SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013.

Early life and education

Born and raised in the municipality of Davos in the Canton of Graubünden, Ursula Wyss is citizen of the Bernese municipalities of Buchholterberg and

Köniz Köniz (, ) is a statistical town, however considers itself still as a village, and a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district right on the southern border to Bern in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality of K ...

. In 1992 she attended higher education entrance qualification ('' Maturität''), and started to study political economy and ecology at the

University of Bern The University of Bern (german: Universität Bern, french: Université de Berne, la, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It is a compreh ...

, at the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

in Glasgow, and at the Technical University of Berlin. Back in Bern, she graduated in 1997, worked as science assistant at the ''Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre'' of the Bern University from 2001 to 2005 where she earned a master's degree as ''Dr. rer. oec.'' in 2006. Besides, Wyss worked at the privately financed BASS research institute and at the national WWF Switzerland bureau.

Political career

Ursula Wyss became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP) which she represented from 1997 to 1999 as member of the parliament (''Grosser Rat des Kantons Bern'') of the Canton of Bern. Between December 1999 and March 2013, she was member (''Nationalrätin'') of the

. In 2013 Wyss was elected as successor of Regula Rytz as executive member (''Gemeinderätin'') of the city of Bern. She presides the department ''Tiefbau, Verkehr und Stadtgrün'' that provides the municipal civil engineering, transport and the urban green areas.

Personal life

Ursula Wyss lives in Bern and is mother of two sons.

References

External links

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Ursula Wyss on the website of the city of Bern
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