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Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi

Politician

Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi 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	Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi · Кьяра Симонески-Кортези · كيارا سيمونيسكي كورتيسى				[sources]
Alias	Clara Simoneschi-Cortesi · Simoneschi-Cortesi, Chiara · Симонески-Кортези, Кьяра				[sources]
Weak alias	Simoneschi · Simoneschi-Cortesi				[sources]
Birth date	1946-04-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Zurich				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Chiara				[sources]
Last name	Cortesi · Simoneschi · Simoneschi-Cortesi				[sources]
Political association	Christian Democratic People's Party · Parti démocrate-chrétien suisse				[sources]
Spoken language	French · Italian				[sources]
Title	- · Conseillère nationale				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q468835				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (1999-2011) · National Council (member, 2003-2007) · National Council (member, 2007-2011) · President of the Swiss National Council				[sources]
Religion	Simoneschi-Cortesi				[sources]
Address	Lugano · Tessin				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Legislativo comunale: dal 1984 al 1998 (presidente: 1996/1997); Legislativo cantonale (Gran Consiglio): da aprile 1987 a novembre 1999 (presidente: 1998/1999)

— 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	2003-12-01	2007-11-30
Member of the National Council

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,396

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,808

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 Legislators57,731

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

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,737

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,739

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-511 · evpo-fbc41be7-55a1-48cc-8507-981f09a86ce0

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