Current Position (s) | Députée, |
Party | Les Verts |
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Birth Date | 06.02.1987 |
Location | Argovie, Oberflachs, Argovie, Switzerland |
Website | http://irenekaelin.ch/ |
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Biography
Irène Kälin (born 6 February 1987 in Lenzburg, Aargau; originally from Einsiedeln) is a Swiss politician of the Green Party.
Kälin earned her Matura at the Gymnasium Leonhard in Basel in 2007. In 2009, she started her Islamic and religion studies at the University of Zurich and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 2013. In 2014, she joined the master’s programme Religionskulturen of the University of Bern, where she wrote a dissertation about the state recognition of Islam. She worked as a trade unionist for Unia Aargau from 2015 to 2016 and is now the chairwoman of ArbeitAargau, the umbrella organisation of employees in the canton