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Thomas Matter

PEP · Politician

Thomas Matter 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	Thomas Matter · توماس ماتير				[sources]
Alias	Matter, Thomas				[sources]
Birth date	1966-03-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Liestal				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Thomas				[sources]
Last name	Matter				[sources]
Political association	Swiss People's Party · Union Démocratique du Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national				[sources]
Website	www.mattergroup.ch · www.thomasmatter.ch				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q17305571				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2014-) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Matter Thomas				[sources]
Address	Muhen · Seefeldstrasse 215, 8008 Zürich · Sissach · Zurich				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-06	Last processed	2026-04-06	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Mitglied Parteileitungsausschuss, Parteileitung, Parteivorstand, Vorstand Fraktion

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss private banker

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Swiss National Council	2014-06-02	-

Data sources

Swiss Federal Assembly897

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,626

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,703

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata328,254

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,340

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-a0475243-84c7-4f8d-b65f-5bc818fa99a7 · ch-parl-councillor-4144

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