Annemarie Huber-Hotz

Infobox Chancellor
name = Annemarie Huber-Hotz


imagesize = 100
order = Chancellor of Switzerland
president = Adolf Ogi
Moritz Leuenberger
Kaspar Villiger
Pascal Couchepin
Joseph Deiss
Samuel Schmid
Moritz Leuenberger
Micheline Calmy-Rey
deputy = Oswald Sigg
Corina Casanova
term_start = 1 January 2000
term_end = 31 December 2007
predecessor = François Couchepin
successor = Corina Casanova
birth_date = birth date and age|1948|08|16|df=y
birth_place = Baar, Zug, Switzerland
party = FDP
religion = Roman Catholic

Annemarie Huber-Hotz (born 16 August, 1948 in Baar, Zug) was Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and got elected on 15 December 1999 after four rounds of voting. The activity is comparable to an office for Minister. The Federal Chancellery, with about 180 workers, performs administrative functions relating to the co-ordination of the Swiss Federal government and the work of the Swiss Federal Council. She is assisted by Vice-Chancellors Oswald Sigg and Corina Casanova. As Chancellor, she attends meetings of the Federal Council but does not vote. Annemarie Huber-Hotz did not stand for reelection in December 2007 (after the general election), and was replaced by Corina Casanova on 1 January 2008.

Biography

Huber-Hotz attended primary and secondary school in Baar, and the Gymnasium of Zug. She then studied sociology, ethnology and political science at the Universities of Bern, Uppsala (Sweden) and Geneva and participated in various professional activities. She undertook advanced studies at ETH in Zürich in spatial planning.

She has held the following positions:
* 1976-1977: Studied spatial planning in Zug canton
* 1978-1981: Worked for the General Secretariat of the Swiss Parliament, in the press service
* 1981-1992: Worked for the secretariat of the Swiss Council of States
* 1989-1992: Director of the parliamentary science service (?, "Leitung des wissenschaftlichen Parlamentsdienstes")
* 1992-1999: General Secretary of the Swiss Parliament
* 2000-2007: Federal Chancellor

Annemarie Huber-Hotz is married and has 3 children. She speaks English, French and Swedish in addition to German and Swiss German.