Jaqueline Badran | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Member of theNational Council (Switzerland) | |
| Assumed office 5 December 2011 | |
| Constituency | Canton of Zurich |
| Vice president of theSocial Democratic Party of Switzerland | |
| In office 1 April 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jacqueline Badran (1961-11-12)12 November 1961 (age 64) Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality |
|
| Party | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse | |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich (Diploma) University of St. Gallen (Licentiate) |
| Occupation | Businesswoman, politician |
| Website | Official website Parliament website |
Jacqueline "Jackie" Badran[1][2] (German pronunciation:[ˈʒakliːnbaˈdraːn]; born 12 November 1961) is a Swiss businesswoman and politician who currently serves on theNational Council (Switzerland) since 2011.[3] Since 2020, she concurrently serves as vice president of theSocial Democratic Party.[4]
She is primarily known for her efforts in regard to affordable housing, including a campaign to banAirbnb.[5][6][7] She also holdsAustralian citizenship.[8] She is one of the survivors of theCrossair Flight 3597 crash.
Badran was born 12 November 1961 inSydney, Australia, one of two daughters, to Frederick George Badran, aLebanese Australian businessman in the textile industry, and Swiss-born Helga Badran (née Horisberger;[9] laterCountessFabbricotti; born 1936). She has an older sister Karin Tamina Deilmann (née Badran).[10][11]
Her father was aLebanese Christian fromBeirut who came to Australia in the 1920s where he built up several businesses from scratch, including textile firm Badran's ofWollongong.[12][13] Later he was able to build a factory for menswear.[14] Her father was introduced to her Swiss-born mother while staying at theBaur au Lac in Zurich on a business trip.
Badran spent her early years living inDarling Point, Sydney, before relocating to Zurich in 1966.[15][16][17] She attended the local schools before spending twogap years traveling the world before studyingbiology at theUniversity of Zurich.[18] Badran also obtained alicentiate ineconomics andpolitical science from theUniversity of St. Gallen.[18]
During her studies she worked as a ski instructor and at the counter of a cinema.[19] In 2000, together with two business partners, she founded auser-centered design agency, Zeix AG,[20] which she has been CEO of since 2004.[21][22]
In 1991 she joined the Social Democratic Party (SP)[23] for which she was elected to the municipal council in of Zurich 2002 in which she stayed until 2011.[18] She was elected to theSwiss National Council in theSwiss parliamentary elections in 2011[24] and re-elected in the parliamentary elections in 2015 and 2019.[24] In January 2020, she announced her candidacy for the vice presidency of the SP, but under the condition thatMattea Meyer andCedric Wermuth would become the copresidents.[25] Since December 2020, she is the vice-president of the SP. Following an exhaustive, but successful campaign against the abolishment of theIssuance Tax, she announced a pause from politics for a few months.[26]
She became known nationally as a local politician in Zurich through her consistent and successful fight to preserve theLex Koller (a law prohibiting non-residents from owning land in Switzerland).[22] On several occasions she has been strongly committed to working out counter-proposals to popular initiatives.[19]
In 1992, Badran married Victor Kemper, aDutchbicycle messenger, who took his wife’s surname.[19] They have no children.
Badran holds Swiss and Australiandual citizenship.[27] Badran survived two serious disasters:[28] In 1993, she was buried by anavalanche in theEngadin.[29] On 24 November 2001, she survived the crash ofCrossair Flight 3597 nearBassersdorf, which killed 24 people.[30]
(Death Notice - Gertrud Horisberger - maternal grandmother)
| International | |
|---|---|
| People | |
