Year of birth
1955

Admission to the bar
1989 (Lausanne)

Languages
- French
- German and English (fluently read, spoken and written)
- Spanish (read and spoken)
- Portuguese and Dutch (read)

Main practice areas
- environmental law
- contract law
- commercial law
- construction law - public procurement law
- planning and construction law
- immigration law
- public economic law
- educational law

Professional experience
- secretary and lawyer of an association in public planning law (1986)
- independent legal and technical counsel (1982-1986)
- building physics engineer (1981-1982)
- member of various boards of directors (since 1984)

Qualifications
- doctorate of law, University of Lausanne (1988)
- master's degree in law, University of Lausanne (1980)
- master in physics EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)(1979)
- certificate of commercial management, EPFL (1975)

Publications
- various legal articles in ZBI, RSJ, etc.
- "Tâches de l'Etat et des communes" in "La Constitution vaudoise du 14 avril 2003", Staempfli Editions SA, Berne 2004
- "Le statut de l'élève en droit fédéral et vaudois", Payot, Lausanne 1988

Links
- Member of the Municipal Concil of Jouxtens-Mézery
- Member of the Concil of States