Eva Herzog
Eva Herzog (born 1962, Basel) is a politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP) of Switzerland and a member of the Council of States. Education. Between 1981 and 1988 she studied History, Economics and Spanish at the University in Basel and University of Santiago de Campostela and graduated with a MSc in 1988. She obtained a in History in 1994. Professional career. Between 1995 and 2000 she held a leading position in the management of the Artspace in Basel. From 2001 until 2004 she was employed as a scientific collaborator at the University of Basel. Political career. She  was elected in to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 2001 and in 2003 she assumed the presidency of the SP fraction in the Grand Council. She remained a member of the Grand Council until 2005, when she assumed as a member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt and onwards headed the finance department. In 2010 she was a candidate for the Federal Council as a successor of the resigning Moritz Leuenberger. But in the elections Simmonetta Sommaruga was elected. In May 2019, she announced that she would resign as a State Council of Basel in January 2020 . In October 2019 she was elected to the Council of States. As she was a candidate for both the Council of State and the National Council, Mustafa Atici assumed her post in the National Council.