{{Short description|Swiss politician (born 1970)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isabelle Moret | image = Isabelle Moret (2019-2020, cropped).jpg | image_size = | office2 = Member of the National Council | term_start2 = 4 December 2006 | term_end2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = Vaud | office1 = First Vice President of the National Council | term_start1 = 26 November 2018 | term_end1 = 2 December 2019 | predecessor1 = Marina Carobbio Guscetti | successor1 = Andreas Aebi | office = President of the National Council | term_start = 2 December 2019 | term_end = 30 November 2020 | predecessor = Marina Carobbio Guscetti | successor = Andreas Aebi | birth_name = Isabelle Zuppiger | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|12|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Lausanne, Switzerland | death_date = | death_place = | party = Free Democratic Party (before 2009)<br>FDP.The Liberals (since 2009) }}
'''Isabelle Moret''' (born '''Zuppiger''', 30 December 1970) is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009, she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.<ref>{{cite web|title=Isabelle Moret: Die Kandidatin, die nicht als Frau gewählt werden will {{!}} NZZ am Sonntag|url=https://nzzas.nzz.ch/public/isabelle-moret-die-kandidatin-die-nicht-als-frau-gewaehlt-werden-will-ld.1309432|last=Friedli|first=Kathrin Alder und Daniel|language=de|date=5 August 2017|access-date=2017-09-01}}.</ref><ref>Swiss Parliament, [https://www.parlament.ch/fr/biografie/isabelle-moret/1346 "Isabelle Moret"]</ref>
== Biography == The daughter of a railway worker, she grew up and studied in Lausanne, where she studied law and later obtained a postgraduate degree in European law.<ref>Jessica Pfister, [https://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/stars/schweiz/fdp-bundesrat-kandidatin-isabelle-moret-waadt-besucht-im-tessin-familie "FDP-Bundesratskandidatin Isabelle Moret : Meine Familie steht hinter mir"], Schweizer Illustrierte, 25-08-17</ref> She then received her law license in Bern.<ref>François Emery, [http://www.journaldemorges.ch/node/3286 « Vie politique et famille, les deux passions d'Isabelle Moret »] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819120225/http://www.journaldemorges.ch/node/3286 |date=2018-08-19 }}, ''Journal de Morges'', 14 août 2011 (accessed 11 May 2018).</ref> She speaks fluent French, German, Swiss German, Italian, and English.<ref>Adrian Krebs, [https://www.bauernzeitung.ch/news-archiv/2017/isabelle-moret-eine-anwaeltin-fuer-die-bauern "Isabelle Moret: Eine Anwältin für die Bauern?"], BauernZeitung, 18-09-17</ref> She is the mother of two children.<ref>Anne-Marie Cuttat, [https://cooperation.ch/moret « Ses enfants la suivent à Berne »], ''Coopération'', 26 mars 2012 (accessed 11 May 2018).</ref>
== Career == After becoming a licensed attorney, she worked for several years in a Lausanne-based law firm. In 2013, she left the bar to concentrate on politics.<ref>Justin Favrod, [https://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/isabelle-moret-plaidera/story/14149694 "Isabelle Moret ne plaidera plus"], 24heures, 08-02-13</ref> She has chaired the Swiss Federation of Food Industries (Fial) and the Swiss umbrella association of hospitals (H+).<ref>H+ website, [http://www.hplus.ch/fr/servicenav/portrait/comite/ "Board"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817193955/http://www.hplus.ch/fr/servicenav/portrait/comite/ |date=2018-08-17 }}</ref> She is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swissgrid, the Swiss transmission system operator.<ref>Swissgrid website, [https://www.swissgrid.ch/fr/home/about-us/company/governance.html#conseil-d-administration "Board of directors"]</ref> In August 2017, while running for the Federal Council, the press revealed that she earns a gross annual income of 310,000 Swiss francs.<ref>Philippe Reichen, [https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/die-bundesratskandidaten-und-ihre-steuererklaerungen/story/18323205 « Bundesratskandidaten im Lohn-Check »], ''Tages-Anzeiger'', 31 août 2017 (accessed 11 May 2018).</ref>
She began her political career in the Swiss Radical Democratic Party (PRD), now the FDP.The Liberals, as a member of the Committee on Domestic Policy in 1997. She was a member of the municipal council in Etoy from 1998 to 2006. In 1998 she also became vice-president of the Young Radicals Switzerland, while being a member of the SME committee and the Economic Commission of the Vaud PRD, of which she became president in 2003.
She was elected to the Grand Council of Vaud in 1999, before becoming a member of the Vaud Constitutional Assembly from 1999 to 2002. She left the Cantonal parliament in 2006, having notably been a member of the Finance Committee from 2002 to 2006.<ref>RTSInfo [https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1164802-prd-isabelle-moret-elue-vice-presidente.html "Isabelle Moret élue vice-présidente du PRD"]</ref>
In December 2006, she was elected to the Swiss Federal Parliament as a member of the National Council. She successfully ran for reelection in 2007, 2011 and 2015. In 2015, she received the most votes of all federal candidates in Francophone Switzerland with 65,351 votes.<ref>Canton de Vaud, [https://www.elections.vd.ch/votelec/app/?id=CHCN20151018 "Elections fédérales du 18 octobre 2015"]</ref> She sat on the Political Institutions Committee (CIP-CN)<ref>Swiss Parliament, [https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/committees/specialist-committees/committees-pic "Political Institutions Committee"]</ref> and the Social Security and Health Committee (CSSS-CN).<ref>Swiss Parliament, [https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/committees/specialist-committees/committees-sshc "Social Security and Health Committee"]</ref> The core of her activities pertain to issues related to the healthcare and pension systems and issues related to immigration and asylum.
In parallel with her office as member of the National Council, from 2008 to 2016 she was the vice-president of the Swiss Radical Democratic Party, and then of the FDP.The Liberals following the merger with the Swiss Liberal Party.<ref>Lise Baillat, [https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/isabelle-moret-quittera-vicepresidence-plr "Isabelle Moret quittera la vice-présidence du PLR"], LeTemps, 10-03-16</ref>
She ran for the Federal Council in September 2017 in a bid to succeed Didier Burkhalter. In the second round of voting, she came third, with 28 votes.<ref>Swiss Parliament, [https://www.parlament.ch/fr/services/news/Pages/2017/20170920101837207194158159041_bsf085.aspx "Ignazio Cassis accède facilement au Conseil fédéral"], 20-09-17</ref>
In December she was elected as the President of the National Council. She is the first woman from Vaud to hold the post.<ref name=President>{{cite news |url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/conseil-national-plebiscite-isabelle-moret |title= Le Conseil national plébiscite Isabelle Moret |language=French |newspaper=Le Temps |date=2019-12-02}}</ref>
== Notes and references == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Parliament.ch|1346}} * [http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/24_heures_en_suisse/Isabelle_Moret_vice_presidente_des_radicaux.html?siteSect=104&sid=8992562&cKey=1208598754000&ty=nd Article du 19 avril 2008 sur Swissinfo.ch]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} * [http://www.isabelle-moret.ch/ Personal website] in French
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