Eva Herzog

Eva Herzog (born 25 December 1961) is a Swiss politician who has represented the Basel-Stadt canton in the Council of States since 2019 and served as President of the Council in 2023–2024. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).

Education Between 1981 and 1988, she studied History, Economics and Spanish at the University in Basel and University of Santiago de Compostela and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a in History in 1994.

Professional career Between 1995 and 2000, she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace in Basel. and in 2003, she assumed the presidency of the SP group in the Grand Council. She remained a member of the Grand Council until 2005,

In May 2019, she announced that she would resign as a State Council of Basel in January 2020. As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council.

In 2010, she was a candidate for the Federal Council as a successor for the resigning Moritz Leuenberger. But in the elections Simonetta Sommaruga was elected.

After in November 2022, Simmonetta Sommaruga announced her resignation, she and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider became the candidate for Sommarug's succession. On the 7 December, Baume-Schneider was elected to the Federal Council and a week later Eva Herzog to the Vice-Presidency to the Council of States.