Dubois definitely succeeds Sutermeister
The Valais State Council has appointed Alain Dubois as head of the Department of Culture (DK). He is currently Deputy Head of Service Anne-Catherine Sutermeister and has been Cantonal Archivist since 2014. He will take up his new post on November 1, 2022.
44-year-old Alain Dubois began his career at the Valais State Archives in 2007 before taking over its management in 2014. He is currently managing several major projects relating to the management and sustainable storage of digital information within the canton of Valais.
In the cultural sector, Alain Dubois was President of the Théâtre du Martolet Foundation in Saint-Maurice from 2011 to 2015, according to the canton's press release. In this role, he familiarized himself with the administration of a cultural enterprise and the challenges of the performing arts and professional artistic creation and helped to build a cantonal network with artists, theater directors and cultural delegates.
Since the beginning of 2022, Dubois has also been Anne-Catherine Sutermeister's deputy, the head of the Department of Culture. Tensions within the department prompted her to resign after just two years.
