10 Facts About Regula Rytz

Regula Rytz concurrently served as co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland from 2012 to 2016 and as president from 2016 to 2020.

Regula Rytz was partially raised in Muri bei Bern and completed the teacher seminary in 1983.

Regula Rytz then studied history, sociology, and constitutional law at the University of Bern, graduating with a master's degree in 1997.

From 1993 to 1998, Regula Rytz was political secretary of the Green Alliance Bern.

Since 2012, Regula Rytz has been president of the Cantonal Commission for Gender Equality, a member of the Board of Directors of the Biel transport company and vice president of the university and Society Forum of the University of Bern.

Regula Rytz was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern from April 1994 to April 2005.

Regula Rytz was elected to the National Council in the national parliamentary elections on 23 October 2011 and was re-elected in both October 2015 and October 2019.

Regula Rytz was a member of the Committee for Transport and Telecommunications from 2013 to 2018 and sat on the Committee for Economic Affairs and Taxation from March 2018, as spokesperson for economic policy of the Swiss Green Party.

Regula Rytz was replaced in the National Council by the Green Natalie Imboden.

Since 2023 Regula Rytz is a delegate to the European Greens.