Ruedi Noser

Rudolf "Ruedi" Noser (born 14 April 1961 in Glarus) is a Swiss businessman and politician (FDP.The Liberals).

Ruedi Noser
Member of the Council of States
Assumed office
8 December 2015
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
In office
1 December 2003 – 7 December 2015
Personal details
Born (1961-04-14) 14 April 1961
Glarus, Switzerland
ResidenceZürich
Alma mater
OccupationSwiss businessman and politician (FDP.The Liberals)

Education and profession

From 1978 to 1982, Noser completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Rieter in Winterthur. He then studied at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil and graduated in 1985 as an electrical engineer. Later he continued his education at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Business Management and at the University of Zurich in Business Administration.

Together with his brother, he set up a software company.[1] In 1988, Ruedi Noser co-owned Noser AG (development of measurement and control technology) in Winterthur, which was restructured a year later to the Noser Group. Since 1996, he is the sole owner of the group. The Noser Group includes several companies in Switzerland, Germany and Canada with a total of around 450 employees. The group competence lies in the area of telecommunications and computer science. From December 2006 to May 2008 he was chairman of the board of directors of Esmertec AG (now known as Myriad Group).

From 2000 to 2006, Noser was the Central President of Swiss Engineering. Since 2006 he is member of the board of ICTswitzerland and since 2009 president of the umbrella organization of the ICT industry. He is also a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich and a member of the board of Economiesuisse.[2][3]

Ruedi Noser lives in Zurich, is married and has four children.

Politics

From 1997 to 2004, Noser was board member of the FDP Canton Zurich, from 2000 to 2003 he was also vice president and from 2003 to 2004 president ad interim of the Cantonal party. He waived a candidacy for the presidium of the FDP Canton of Zurich. From 1999 to 2009 he was also a member of the executive board of the FDP Switzerland (now FDP.The Liberals) and from 2003 to 2009 vice-president of the national party.

In the 1999–2003 parliamentary term, Ruedi Noser sat on the canton council for the Zurich FDP and between 2003 and 2015 as a representative of the FDP Canton of Zurich in the National Council. On 22 November 2015, he was elected to the Council of States as a representative of the Canton of Zurich.

References
  1. Luzi Bernet, Jan Hudec (25 August 2015). "Je ideologischer man an eine Sache herangeht, desto teurer wird es". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. "Industrial Advisory Board". Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  3. "Economiesuisse nimmt Tochter von brasilianischem Bergbauriesen auf". Tages Anzeiger. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
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