Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

Politician

1956 –

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Who is Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf?

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is a Swiss lawyer, politician, and member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2008. She is the head of the Federal Department of Finance. She served as President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2012.

Widmer-Schlumpf is married and has three children. She is the daughter of former federal councillor Leon Schlumpf. She is the second federal councillor whose father had held the same office, after Eugène Ruffy, and the sixth woman to be elected to the Swiss Federal Council.

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Born
Mar 16, 1956
Felsberg
Parents
Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • Germans
Nationality
  • Switzerland
Profession
Education
  • University of Zurich

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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