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Didier Burkhalter

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Didier Eric Burkhalter (born 17 April 1960) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2009 to 2017. A member of FDP.The Liberals, he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2014. Burkhalter was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 16 September 2009; he succeeded Pascal Couchepin on 1 November 2009 when he became head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs. From 1 January 2012 to 31 October 2017, he served as head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Didier Burkhalter is the 9,102nd most popular politician (up from 10,414th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 291st in 2019) and the 35th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Didier Burkhalter ranks 9,102 out of 19,576. Before him are Miltiades the Elder, Geng Ding, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, Johann Michael Bach, Hippocrates of Gela, and Abdallah al-Adil. After him are Harry Dexter White, Svein Knutsson, Wu Yi, Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, Janusz Radziwiłł, and Isaac Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Didier Burkhalter ranks 112. Before him are Johnny Briceño, Kevin Carter, Ersin Tatar, Laurent Fignon, Mauro Tassotti, and Carlos Mozer. After him are Mohamed Bazoum, Hussein al-Houthi, Stefano Casiraghi, Steve Blum, Vince Clarke, and Michael Hutchence.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Didier Burkhalter ranks 250 out of 1,015. Before him are Denis de Rougemont (1906), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Paul Wild (1925), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Rudolf Wolf (1816), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884). After him are Ludwig Senfl (1486), Alfred Escher (1819), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Carl Lutz (1895), Lucien Favre (1957), and Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Didier Burkhalter ranks 35. Before him are Giuseppe Motta (1871), Joseph Deiss (1946), Leonardo Conti (1900), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), and Ubol Ratana (1951). After him are Alfred Escher (1819), Carl Lutz (1895), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (1956), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), and Moritz Leuenberger (1946).

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