Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

Christine Magistretti-Naville obtained a BA in Nursing in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979 and a BA in Psychology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in 1982. She worked as a counselor at the family planning clinic of the University Hospital in Geneva from 1982-1989. In 1993, as President of the Swiss Association of Family Planning Counsellors (ASCPF) she was one of the initiators and founding members of the Swiss Association for Family Planning and Sex Education (ASPFES). From 1993 to 1998 she managed ASPFES as Executive Director and developed, among other projects, a parliamentary advocacy programme in Switzerland.

In 1999 Ms Magistretti-Naville worked as a consultant for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Council of Europe. From 1999 to 2004 she was Executive Director of the International Foundation for Population and Development (IFPD) of which she is a founding member. In 2005 she became Chair of the Board of IFPD.

Ms Magistretti-Naville has been President of the National Commission for Equal Rights between Men and Women of one of Switzerland’s governmental political parties and she was a candidate for the Conseil National (Congress) in the 1995 elections.

Member of the Board of the Swiss Society for Fertility, Sterility and Family Planning (1997-2003); former member of the Steering Committee of the EuroNGOs Network, Past-President of the Lausanne chapter of the Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPW), former member and Vice-Chair of the Board of the International School of Lausanne (ISL), member of the Executive Committee of Giving Women (a philanthropy network), member of the Committee of “Ladies Lunch Lausanne”, Christine Magistretti-Naville is married and has 3 children.