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Roger Golay

Politician

Roger Golay 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	Roger Golay · روجير جولاى				[sources]
Alias	Golay, Roger				[sources]
Birth date	1959-09-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Geneva · Genève				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	roger.golay@parl.ch				[sources]
First name	Roger				[sources]
Last name	Golay				[sources]
Political association	Geneva Citizens' Movement · Mouvement Citoyens Genevois				[sources]
Spoken language	French				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16269596				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2013-2019) · Member of the Swiss National Council (2023-) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Golay Roger				[sources]
Address	Genève · Le Chenit				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Président Mouvement Citoyens Genevois: depuis avril 2011 jusqu'à avril 2016; Législatif cantonal: depuis septembre 2005 jusqu'à novembre 2013; Conseiller municipal (Ville de Lancy): depuis 2007 jusqu'à 2016; député

— 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 Swiss National Council	2023-12-04	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly898

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-4137 · evpo-c741ad9d-991c-43bc-96f2-47a832de43bf

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