Pro Helvetia with new members of the Board of Trustees
The Federal Council has elected two new Foundation Board members for the Pro Helvetia cultural foundation: Françoise Simone König Gerny replaces Felix Uhlmann and Marie-Thérèse Bonadonna replaces Anne-Catherine Sutermeister.
The previous Foundation Board members Anne-Catherine Sutermeister (Department of Art and Cultural Studies) and Felix Uhlmann (Department of Law) are reaching the end of their term of office. Françoise Simone König Gerny will represent the Department of Law from January 1, 2018. She is Co-Head of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Basel-Stadt. Marie-Thérèse Bonadonna, Cultural Delegate of Club 44 in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, will also take over the Arts and Cultural Studies department on January 1, 2018.
The current term of office lasts until 2019. The other members of the Board of Trustees are Susanna Fanzun, Marco Franciolli, Guillaume Juppin de Fondaumière, Johannes Schmid-Kunz, Nicole Seiler and Peter Siegenthaler.
The nine-member Board of Trustees of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is the foundation's strategic body. It represents the various specialist areas of cultural life and the four language regions of Switzerland. Former Geneva State Councillor Charles Beer was confirmed in his position as President of the Foundation by the Federal Council and will take up his second term of office on January 1, 2018.
