Jacqueline Badran

Jaqueline Badran
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the National Council (Switzerland)
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 December 2011
ConstituencyCanton of Zurich
Vice president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
In office
1 April 2020
Personal details
Born
Jacqueline Badran

(1961-11-12) 12 November 1961
Sydney, Australia
Nationality
  • Switzerland
  • Australia
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Spouse
Victor Kemper
​
(m. 1992)​
Alma materUniversity of Zurich (Diploma)
University of St. Gallen (Licentiate)
OccupationBusinesswoman, politician
WebsiteOfficial website
Parliament website

Jacqueline "Jackie" Badran[1][2] (German pronunciation: [ˈʒakliːn baˈdraːn]; born 12 November 1961) is a Swiss businesswoman and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) since 2011.[3] Since 2020, she concurrently serves as vice president of the Social Democratic Party.[4]

She is primarily known for her efforts in regard to affordable housing, including a campaign to ban Airbnb.[5][6][7] She also holds Australian citizenship.[8] She is one of the survivors of the Crossair Flight 3597 crash.

Early life and education

Badran was born 12 November 1961 in Sydney, Australia, one of two daughters, to Frederick George Badran, a Lebanese Australian businessman in the textile industry, and Swiss-born Helga Badran (née Horisberger;[9] later Countess Fabbricotti; born 1936). She has an older sister Karin Tamina Deilmann (née Badran).[10][11]

Her father was a Lebanese Christian from Beirut who came to Australia in the 1920s where he built up several businesses from scratch, including textile firm Badran's of Wollongong.[12][13] Later he was able to build a factory for menswear.[14] Her father was introduced to her Swiss-born mother while staying at the Baur au Lac in Zurich on a business trip.

Badran spent her early years living in Darling Point, Sydney, before relocating to Zurich in 1966.[15][16][17] She attended the local schools before spending two gap years traveling the world before studying biology at the University of Zurich.[18] Badran also obtained a licentiate in economics and political science from the University of St. Gallen.[18]

Professional career

During her studies she worked as a ski instructor and at the counter of a cinema.[19] In 2000, together with two business partners, she founded a user-centered design agency, Zeix AG,[20] which she has been CEO of since 2004.[21][22]

Political career

In 1991 she joined the Social Democratic Party (SP)[23] for which she was elected to the municipal council in of Zurich 2002 in which she stayed until 2011.[18] She was elected to the Swiss National Council in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011[24] and re-elected in the parliamentary elections in 2015 and 2019.[24] In January 2020, she announced her candidacy for the vice presidency of the SP, but under the condition that Mattea Meyer and Cedric Wermuth would become the copresidents.[25] Since December 2020, she is the vice-president of the SP. Following an exhaustive, but successful campaign against the abolishment of the Issuance Tax, she announced a pause from politics for a few months.[26]

Political positions

She became known nationally as a local politician in Zurich through her consistent and successful fight to preserve the Lex Koller (a law prohibiting non-residents from owning land in Switzerland).[22] On several occasions she has been strongly committed to working out counter-proposals to popular initiatives.[19]

Personal life

In 1992, Badran married Victor Kemper, a Dutch bicycle messenger, who took his wife’s surname.[19] They have no children.

Badran holds Swiss and Australian dual citizenship.[27] Badran survived two serious disasters:[28] In 1993, she was buried by an avalanche in the Engadin.[29] On 24 November 2001, she survived the crash of Crossair Flight 3597 near Bassersdorf, which killed 24 people.[30]

References

  1. ^ "Jacqueline Badran in Zürich - Reports". Moneyhouse. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ^ Club - Reichtum und Armut: Das Budget-Menü - Play SRF (in German), retrieved 16 August 2023
  3. ^ "Ratsmitglied ansehen". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Jacqueline Badran - SP Schweiz". www.sp-ps.ch (in German). 1 July 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  5. ^ ""Business-Apartments stehlen Wohnraum" – 1.5 Zimmer für 5000 Franken". Watson (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  6. ^ "Bis dem Immobilien-Investor die Worte fehlten – Badran teilt in der Wohnungsnot-Arena aus". Watson (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Wegen Wohnungskrise - SP-Badran will AirBnB verbieten". 20 Minuten (in German). 3 March 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  8. ^ "SP-Nationalrätin Jacqueline Badran beklagt sich darüber, dass die SVP die SP aus den Medien verdrängt habe – das sagt sie, die beim Schweizer Fernsehen ein Dauergastrecht geniesst". Die Weltwoche (in German). 13 June 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Neue Zürcher Zeitung 4 October 1970". www.e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved 22 April 2025. (Death Notice - Gertrud Horisberger - maternal grandmother)
  10. ^ p.5/32 https://bridge-stmoritz.ch/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PDA200280_Tourist_Board_Bridge_Magazin_2022-1.pdf
  11. ^ "Zürcher Bridgeclub". zuercherbridgeclub.ch. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  12. ^ Geboren am - 12. November 1961 – Jacqueline Badran - Play SRF (in German), retrieved 6 May 2023
  13. ^ "Badran's: where Wollongong's fashionistas shopped - Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion". Dailymotion. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  14. ^ 12. November 1961 – Jacqueline Badran - Geboren am - Play SRF. Retrieved 21 February 2025 – via www.srf.ch.
  15. ^ "1964 (43rd), PP no. 97 of 1964". Trove. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  16. ^ SRF HEIMATLAND - "Vier zum Volk": Jacqueline Badran (Staffel 1, Folge 4) - Play SRF (in German), retrieved 6 May 2023
  17. ^ "Unbequem und unbeirrbar - Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich". www.tagblattzuerich.ch. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  18. ^ a b c "Jacqueline Badran". SP Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  19. ^ a b c "Jacqueline Badran mit Ehemann privat nach Politik SP USR". Schweizer Illustrierte (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  20. ^ Matt, Othmar von. "Interview: "Man macht uns lächerlich, um die Debatte zu verhindern": SP-Vordenkerin Jacqueline Badran im grossen Interview". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Jacqueline Badran, CEO von Zeix, Zürich". Zeix (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  22. ^ a b "DOK - Die streitbare Linke". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 20 November 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  23. ^ "Mit Jacqueline Badran". www.radio24.ch. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  24. ^ a b "Ratsmitglied ansehen". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  25. ^ "Nur unter Meyer/Wermuth: Jacqueline Badran will SP-Vizepräsidentin werden". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  26. ^ Pfaff, Isabel. "Jacqueline Badran kippte die Steuererleichterung für Schweizer Firmen". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  27. ^ Matt, Othmar von. "Doppelbürger: Die Doppelpass-Fraktion: Jeder zehnte Parlamentarier ist Doppelbürger". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  28. ^ "Ein Unglück kommt selten allein | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  29. ^ Baumann, Ruedi (6 February 2014). "Badran erleidet im Tanzkurs einen Schädelbruch". Tages-Anzeiger (in German). ISSN 1422-9994. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  30. ^ Schweiz aktuell - Crossair-Absturz vor 10 Jahren bei Bassersdorf - Play SRF (in German), retrieved 2 February 2021
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