{{Short description|Liechtenstein politician (born 1961)}}{{For|Austrian skier|Andreas Matt}}{{Infobox officeholder | office = Member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein for Unterland | party = Free List | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|04|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Chur, Switzerland | children = 1 | term_start = 13 March 2005 | term_end = 8 February 2009 }} '''Andrea Matt''' (born 29 April 1961) is a politician and Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2005 to 2009.
== Life == Matt was born on 29 April 1961 in Grabs as the daughter of dental technician Egon Matt and Waltraud (née Ritter) as one of five children. She attended high school in Vaduz before studying design and communication design in Nuremberg, she received a degree in advertising management. She studied law in Linz and received a certificate as a science journalist in 2011.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=31 December 2011 |title=Matt, Andrea |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Matt,_Andrea |access-date=30 September 2025 |website=Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref>
From 1986 to 1999 she worked in positions in public relations, customer service, advertising and computer graphics in Switzerland and Germany. From 1999 to 2011, she ran her own graphics and computer-aided design company in Mauren, ''AM Design AG''. She has also been the managing director of the Liechtenstein society for environmental protection.<ref name=":0" />
Matt was a member of the Mauren school board from 2003 to 2007. She was a member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2005 to 2009 as a member of the Free List. During this time, she was a member of the audit committee and the Free List's spokesperson in the Landtag from 2007 to 2009.<ref name=":0" /> She unsuccessfully ran for re-election in the 2009 elections, which was referred to by the ''Liechtensteiner Volksblatt'' as a "bitter loss".<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 February 2009 |title=Bittere Tränen bei Freien Liste |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_2009/794/LOG_0035/ |access-date=25 December 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |pages=8 |language=de}}</ref>
She was a judge at the Princely High Court from 2010 to 2012.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2019, she has been a member of the Mauren municipal council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gemeindewahlen Liechtenstein - Gemeinderätinnen und -räte |url=https://www.gemeindewahlen.li/gemeinderaete/11 |access-date=30 September 2025 |website=Information und Kommunikation der Regiierung |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Quaderer |first=Elias |date=25 November 2022 |title=Freie Liste wird nicht an Erfolg von 2019 anknüpfen können |url=https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/politik/gemeindewahlen-freie-liste-wird-nicht-an-erfolg-von-2019-anknuepfen-koennen-art-513662 |url-access=subscription |access-date=30 September 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland |language=de}}</ref> During this time, she has opposed the construction of a road tunnel from Mauren to Feldkirch.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 October 2019 |title=Stadttunnel lässt Gegner nicht los |url=https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/gesellschaft/vermischtes/stadttunnel-laesst-gegner-nicht-los-art-400954 |access-date=30 September 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kaiser |first=Mirjam |date=23 March 2023 |title=Trotz Bau: Gegner des Stadttunnels verzeichneten grosse Erfolge |url=https://www.vaterland.li/liechtenstein/gesellschaft/trotz-bau-gegner-des-stadttunnels-verzeichneten-viele-erfolge-art-526713 |url-access=subscription |access-date=30 September 2025 |work=Liechtensteiner Vaterland |language=de}}</ref>
She lives in Mauren and has one child.<ref name=":0" />
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