Radio SRF: New Head of Business Editorial Office
The Editorial Board has appointed Eveline Kobler as the new Head of the Business Editorial Department. She succeeds Barbara Widmer, who took on her new role as Chief of Staff of the Radio Editorial Team on September 1, 2016.
Eveline Kobler has worked as a business editor for Radio SRF since 2007 and has been deputy editor-in-chief since 2011. She has also presented the "Samstagsrundschau" show on Radio SRF since 2011.
The 39-year-old from the Zurich Oberland region studied political science at the University of St. Gallen and graduated in 2003. She then worked for AWP Finanznachrichten as business editor for four years.
On December 1, 2016, Eveline Kobler will take on her new role as head of the business editorial team. She succeeds Barbara Widmer, who has been Chief of Staff of the Radio Editorial Team since the beginning of September.
Lis Borner, Editor-in-Chief of Radio, in a press release: "Eveline Kobler is a proven radio journalist who competently assesses and comments on economic and economic policy issues and events in Switzerland and abroad - both in her core dossiers of banking, monetary policy and pharmaceuticals as well as in numerous other subject areas. She is very well connected within the Bank and in the Swiss economy and has management experience due to her deputy function. She has proven this time and again over a longer period of time."
