Adrienne Corboud Fumagalli becomes new ComCom Vice-President
At its meeting on December 1, 2017, the Federal Council elected Adrienne Corboud Fumagalli, a current member of the Federal Communications Commission (ComCom), as its new vice president. The Federal Council also appointed Flavia Verzasconi and Christian Martin as two new ComCom members.
As of January 1, 2018, they will replace the members Monica Duca Widmer, Vice Chair since 2012, and Reiner Eichenberger, who will leave ComCom at the end of the year after the maximum term of office of twelve years.
On January 1, 2018, the Federal Council appointed Adrienne Corboud Fumagalli, a long-standing ComCom member with extensive professional experience in the ICT sector, as the new Vice-President. The two new committee members will join ComCom on January 1, 2018.
As an electrical engineer HTL and General Manager of Cisco Switzerland, Christian Martin has outstanding knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT), according to the press release. Flavia Verzasconi is a lawyer with a license to practise law and as a notary public in the canton of Ticino. She is President of the Administrative Court of the Canton of Ticino and therefore has important public law expertise for ComCom.
Photo: Parliamentary Services, Bern
