New President of Suisseculture
The musician and National Councillor Estelle Revaz was unanimously elected as the new president of Suisseculture, the umbrella organization for professional cultural organizations and copyright societies in Switzerland, on June 19, 2025.
Estelle Revaz will take over the position on October 1, 2025 from Omri Ziegele, who is stepping down after seven years as president. The general assembly expressed deep gratitude to Ziegele for his remarkable commitment to cultural workers.
Estelle Revaz is a cellist with an international career. She became politically active as an artist during the Covid pandemic, wrote the book “La Saltimbanque” and has been a member of the National Council since 2023, where she represents in particular the interests of cultural workers. Since her election as a National Councillor, she has succeeded in making the issue of social security for cultural professionals one of the priorities of the legislative period. She has facilitated amendments to the law on the National Library to benefit cultural workers and the media, and successfully passed her first personal motion for a national strategy to combat poverty.
She will be supported in her future work by an eleven-member board, which also includes Danse Suisse. Estelle Revaz is the first president of Suisseculture from the French-speaking region of Switzerland.