Doris Fiala
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the National Council (Switzerland)
In office
3 December 2007 – 3 December 2023
ConstituencyCanton of Zürich
President of The Liberals Women
In office
2017 – May 2020
Succeeded bySusanne Vincenz-Stauffacher
Personal details
Born
Doris Yvonne Goldiger

(1957-01-29) 29 January 1957
Zürich, Switzerland
Spouse
Jan Fiala
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(m. 1981; died 2019)​
Domestic partnerArmin Walpen (since 2021)
Children3
Residences
OccupationBusinesswoman, public relations consultant
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website
Parliament website

Doris Yvonne Fiala[1] (née Goldiger; German pronunciation: [fiˈaːla] Czech pronunciation: [ˈfjala]; born 29 January 1957) is a Swiss politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) for The Liberals between 2007 and 2023.[2] Concurrently, she served as president of The Liberals Women between 2017 and 2020.[3][4][5] Fiala has also been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she chaired the committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons from 2018 to 2020.[6] She was also referred to as a Swiss version of Sarah Palin.[7]

Life

Fiala was born Doris Yvonne Goldiger on 29 January 1957 in Zürich, Switzerland. After completing commercial school she pursued continuing education in travel and nutrition studies at a variety of institutions such as École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and the Institute for Nutrition Zürich.

Fiala is the owner and consultant of FIALA Risk and Opportunity Management which is primarily active in the field of public relations, which she founded in 2000.[8]

Political career

Fiala in 2017 as head of the PACE delegation in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Between 2000 and 2007, Fiala served as a member of the city parliament of Zürich. There she succeeded Ruedi Noser defeating Filippo Leutenegger. Previously, she was the president of the Free Democratic Party of Zürich. During the 2007 Swiss federal election, Fiala was elected to National Council (Switzerland) and held this position throughout 2023. She announced her resignation in May 2020.[9][10]

Personal life

Fiala was married to Jan Fiala (1949–2019), an engineer, who fled Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, settling in Switzerland. He died of cancer in December 2019. They had three children. Since 2016, she splits her time between Samedan and Zürich.[11][12] Since 2021, she is in a domestic relationship with Armin Walpen, former general director of Swiss Radio and Television.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Doris Yvonne Fiala in Samedan - Auskünfte". Moneyhouse (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  2. ↑ "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  3. ↑ "Doris Fiala - We advance". weadvance.ch. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  4. ↑ "Doris Fiala". St. Galler Tagblatt (in German). 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  5. ↑ "Susanne Vincenz-Stauffacher oberste FDP-Frau der Schweiz - Regionaljournal Graubünden - SRF". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  6. ↑ https://pace.coe.int/en/members/6292
  7. ↑ "Doris Fiala: Hockey Mom aus Hottingen". www.woz.ch (in German). 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  8. ↑ CV https://fiala.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/One-Pager_E_DF_August.pdf
  9. ↑ "Zürich: FDP-Nationalrätin Doris Fiala kündigt Rücktritt an". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). 2020-05-07. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  10. ↑ Conzett, Anja (2020-07-13). "Stehauffrau". Republik (in German).
  11. ↑ "Todesanzeigenportal.ch - die grösste Plattform für Traueranzeigen in der Schweiz". www.todesanzeigenportal.ch. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  12. ↑ "Krebsleiden: Doris Fiala trauert um ihren Ehemann". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  13. ↑ https://www.blick.ch/people-tv/fdp-nationalraetin-doris-fiala-63-und-ex-srg-generaldirektor-armin-walpen-72-ja-wir-sind-ein-paar-id16283454.html
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