Presenter
Corinne Hutmacher-Perret
Head of Studies Department, Swiss Conference for Social Welfare, SKOS
Biography
Corinne holds a Master of Science in Social Work from the Bern University of Applied Sciences and a law degree from the University of Basel. She brings extensive experience in the fields of social welfare, hospital care, and disability support.
She provides legal counsel to 68 social services offices in the Canton of Berne and represents the canton in French-speaking Switzerland as a board member of ARTIAS (Swiss Conference for Social Welfare).
From 1987 to 1993, Corinne was a member of the Cantonal Parliament of Basel-Landschaft, where she served on parliamentary committees focused on health and hospital planning, data protection, the Schweizerhalle incident, and direct agricultural payments.
She currently serves as a municipal councillor in Aesch (BL), where she heads the Department of Social Affairs and Education.