Legal specialist at Zurich Insurance Group. Party:  FDP. The Liberals.
Law degree and ecology studies at University of Bern incl. Erasmus semester at Nijmegen / NL (1998), 2001

POLITICAL OFFICE AND MANDATES
Member of Burgdorf communal parliament: January 1999 to May 2002
Member of Bern cantonal parliament: April 2002 to November 2003
Member of the National Council for the FDP (canton of Bern): since December 2003
President of the Swiss Parliamentary Ski Group
President of the Swiss-US Association
Co-President of the Cross Party Group on Renewable Energy
Co-President of the Cross Party Group on Swiss-Ukraine Relations