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Anne Lévy (* May 24, 1971 in Bern) is a Swiss manager and has been the Director of the Federal Office of Public Health of the Swiss Confederation (BAG) since 2020.

Career
Anne Lévy grew up in Bern. At the age of 16 she moved to Basel, where her father Philippe Lévy became General Manager of the Swiss Sample Fair in Basel. She graduated from high school with a Type B Matura. At the University of Lausanne, Lévy completed her studies in political science. She also holds an Executive MBA in Nonprofit Organization Management from the University of Fribourg.

Lévy has many years of experience in management and leadership and is also a specialist in public health. After her studies, Lévy worked as a specialist in drug-related issues for the city of Bern. In 2001, she became head of the Coordination and Service Platform for Addiction at the Federal Office of Public Health. She then became the head of the addiction and AIDS unit from 2003 to 2004. She headed the alcohol and tobacco section at the Federal Office of Public Health until 2009. The same year, she took on the role of Head of Health Protection of the Health Department of Basel-City before becoming CEO of the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel in 2015. After five years in this position, the Federal Council elected her as the new Director of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). She took up this post on October 1, 2020.

Furthermore, Lévy was also active as a lecturer. From 2015 to 2019, she was a co-leader for the module on health and social policy as well as a lecturer on health policy at the School for Professional and Continuing Education in Zofingen and the Higher Technical School of Podiatry. From 2008 to 2019, she was a lecturer of the health policy module of the Master in Public Health at the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich.

Anne Lévy has held several honorary positions. From 2014 to 2019, she was President of the Board of Trustees for Addiction Switzerland and a member of the Board of the New Israel Fund Switzerland. From 2014 to 2019, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Goldschmidt Jacobson Foundation. At the same time, she was a board member of OdA Health of Basel from 2017 to 2020. Lévy was also a board member of the Israelite Community Basel (IGB) from 2018 to 2020. More recently, she was a member of the Mental Health sub-committee of the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) from 2019 to 2020 and a board member and Vice President of the Association of Northwestern Hospitals in Switzerland Hospitals (VNS).

Lévy lives in Bern together with her husband.

Links

 * Anne Lévy, Neue BAG-Chefin: Als Krisenmanagerin gefordert, Radio SRF, 1. Oktober 2020