Simone de Montmollin

Simone de Montmollin (née Götz; born 20 July 1968 in Lausanne) is a Swiss politician, businesswoman, and oenologist. She began her career in the medical field, working for the European Society of Cardiology before founding her own medical communications company, Götz & Cie Cardio Diffusion, in 1991. De Montmollin left the medical field to become an oenologist, and served as the director of the Swiss Union of Oenologists, worked as a communications specialist at Agroscope, and served as chairwoman for the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine in Geneva. In 2008 she was elected, as an Independent, to the Geneva Constituent Assembly. She later joined FDP.The Liberals and was elected to the Grand Council of Geneva, serving from 2013 to 2018. In her last year on the council, she was the president of the Committee for Environment, Agriculture, and Management. In 2019, de Montmollin was elected to the National Council, where she is a member of the Committee for Science, Education and Culture and the Delegation for Relations with the French Parliament.

Early life and family De Montmollin was born Simone Götz in Lausanne on 20 July 1968. Her father was from Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany and moved to Switzerland in the 1950s. De Montmollin's grandfather, a German soldier, was killed on the Eastern Front during World War II. In 2019, she was the chairwoman of the organizing committee for the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine in Geneva. As a freelance oenologist, de Montmollin works with private and public Swiss and international organizations on viniculture projects.

Politics In 2008, de Montmollin was elected as an Independent to the Geneva Constituent Assembly, where she worked on introducing a constitutional article on agriculture.

In 2013, she was elected as, a member of FDP.The Liberals, She was a committee member for Environment, Agriculture, and Management, serving as the committee's president from 2017 to 2018.

In 2019, de Montmollin was elected, receiving 32,402 votes, to the National Council. She was elected alongside Christian Lüscher. She is a member of the Committee for Science, Education and Culture and of the delegation for the relations with the French Parliament. She supported the abolition of the stamp duty tax, which is required by Swiss companies when they issue shares or bonds to increase equity.

Personal life She is married to Alexandre de Montmollin, an oenologist, and has two daughters.