Ursula Wyss
Ursula Wyss (born 8 February 1973 in Davos) is a Swiss politician and economist. She served the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (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 a citizen of the Bernese municipalities of Buchholterberg and Köniz. She attended higher education entrance qualification (Maturität) in 1992 and began studying political economy and ecology at the University of Bern, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Technical University of Berlin. Back in Bern, she graduated in 1997 and worked as a science assistant at Bern University's Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre from 2001 to 2005 when she graduated as Dr. rer. Oec. Oec. In the year 2006. Wyss also worked at the private-funded BASS Research Institute and the WWF Switzerland office.
Political career
Ursula Wyss became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP), which she represented as a member of the Canton Bern (Grosser Rat des Kantons Bern) from 1997 to 1999. Between December 1999 and March 2013, she was Swiss National Council member (Nationalrätin). In 2013, Wyss was elected to succeed Regula Rytz as Bern City's executive member (Gemeinderätin). She chairs Tiefbau, Verkehr und Stadtgrün, which provides municipal civil engineering, transit and green urban spaces.
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