Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster is the new head of social policy at the employers' association
Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster took over as Head of the Social Policy Department at the Swiss Employers' Association on August 7, 2023. She has moved from the Swiss Insurance Association to the umbrella organization of employers.
The Social Policy and Social Insurance Department will have a new head in Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster as of August 7, 2023. An expert in social insurance law, she brings with her many years of management experience and very broad knowledge of employer policy, which she gained during her time at the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA) and at Swissmem, the employers' association of the Swiss engineering industry. Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster succeeds Lukas Müller-Brunner, who left the Swiss Employers' Association in the middle of the year to take up the position of director at the pension fund association ASIP.
Before joining Swissmem, the new Head of Department worked as a legal advisor at the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, among others. She completed her law degree at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne and holds an LL.M in International and European Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. "Switzerland is facing weighty challenges around its social welfare systems. I look forward to working with my team to advance the necessary reforms," says the new head of department Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster. And SAV Director Roland A. Müller says of the new manager: "In Barbara Zimmermann-Gerster we have been able to recruit an expert who will play an active role in shaping social policy. Thanks to her many years of experience in associations in general and in employer policy in particular, she is ideally qualified to do so."
Source: Swiss Employers' Association
