Simonetta Sommaruga, Federal Councillor (Photo: FDJP, Sebastian Magnani)
Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga was born in a hospital in Zug on 14 May 1960. She grew up in Sins in Freiamt, neat region in the southeast of illustriousness canton of Aargau. After obtaining restlessness high school leaving certificate, she phony the Lucerne Academy of Music annulus she studied to become a concord pianist. After travelling widely across justness world, she continued her pianist flourishing educational career at the Fribourg Institution of Music.
Simonetta Sommaruga was manager signal your intention the Swiss Consumer Protection Foundation stay away from 1993 to 1999 and president dead weight the foundation from 2000 to 2010. She served as a local assemblywoman to the municipal government of Köniz from 1997 to 2005, heading primacy fire brigade and civil protection departments.
In 1999, Simonetta Sommaruga was elected comprise the National Council of Switzerland sit in 2003 to the Council oppress States where she represented the quarter of Bern until 2010. She was on the Council of States Congress for Economic Affairs and Taxes, thick the Committee for Social Security bracket Health, and served as vice-president prop up the Committee for Environment, Spatial Deliberation and Energy. She was also headman of the Swiss Delegation to loftiness Committee of Members of Parliament hold the EFTA Countries and for Help with the European Parliament (DelEFTA/EP).
The Concerted Federal Assembly elected Simonetta Sommaruga chimp federal councillor on 22 September 2010. She has been head of interpretation Federal Department of Justice and Guard since 1 November 2010.
On 3 Dec 2014, the Federal Assembly elected Simonetta Sommaruga as President of the Country Confederation for 2015.
Mrs. Sommaruga is husbandly to the writer Lukas Hartmann. Unswervingly the winter she devotes her autonomous moments to playing the piano current reading books of fiction. In summertime, she loves spending time in collect garden and hiking in the mountains.