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Christian van Singer

Politician

Christian van Singer is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Christian van Singer · كريستيان فان سنجر				[sources]
Alias	Van Singer · van Singer, Christian · كريستيان فان سنجر				[sources]
Birth date	1950-01-20				[sources]
Place of birth	Triest · Trieste				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Christian				[sources]
Last name	van Singer				[sources]
Political association	Les VERT-E-S suisses				[sources]
Spoken language	French				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · dipl. en physique, Master en énergie				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q119448				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2007-2015) · National Council (member, 2007-2011) · National Council (member, 2011-2015)				[sources]
Education	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne · University of Lausanne				[sources]
Religion	van Singer				[sources]
Address	Lausanne · Vaud				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Membre du comité des Verts vaudois: depuis janvier 2001; Législatif communal: depuis 1988 jusqu'à novembre 2007; Exécutif communal: depuis 1979 jusqu'à 1983; Législatif cantonal: depuis 2000 jusqu'à novembre 2007

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Council	2007-12-03	2011-12-02
Member of the National Council

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories380,925

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly901

Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,602

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata354,031

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-7cd9ffd9-4d36-460c-a20e-7456efac3320 · ch-parl-councillor-3924

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