Patrizia Pesenti moves to Ringier Corporate Development
Patrizia Pesenti, a longtime member of the Ticino cantonal government, will join the media company Ringier effective September 1, 2011. She will take on a new role in corporate development at Ringier Switzerland.
In April of this year, Pesenti said goodbye to the Ticino government council after three legislative terms and also recently announced that she would not be running for the National Council in the fall. As of September 1, she will now be working in corporate development at Ringier Switzerland in Zurich. In this role, she will report directly to the new COO Ringier Switzerland and Germany, Michael Voss, and will also take over duties for Marc Walder, CEO Ringier Switzerland and Germany, in the highly diversified and broadly positioned media company, according to a Ringier release.
Patrizia Pesenti had been a member of the five-member State Council of the Canton of Ticino since April 1999. The Social Democratic politician headed the Department of Social Affairs and Sanitation. Pesenti, who studied law at the University of Zurich, was admitted to the bar and became a juvenile court judge in Ticino at the age of 26. After 14 years in office, the political high-flyer became the second woman to be elected to the Ticino cantonal government. In 2002, she ran for the Federal Council as a possible successor to Ruth Dreifuss, then lost to Micheline Calmy-Rey from Geneva. In 2010, she was again considered as a candidate for the Federal Council, but ultimately dropped out.
