Margret Kiener Nellen

Margareta Kiener was born on 17 April 1953 in Bern, Switzerland to Otto Kiener (1909-1978)[2] and Ruth (née aus der Au) Kiener as the youngest of three children. Her father, a secondary school teacher, was the mayor of Bolligen and served on the Grand Council of Bern for the Swiss People's Party from 1962 to 1974. She grew-up in the Habstetten section of Bolligen.

Kiener initially attended the University of Geneva, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting and became a diplomaed translator (German, French, English and Italian). Subsequently, she studied commercial law at the University of St. Gallen and graduated in 1981 with a licentiate degree (equivalent to a master's degree).

In 1987, she was admitted to the bar in Geneva. Since then she was self-employed and had her own attorney and notary public practice in Bolligen. Since 1 June 2013, she is a partner in the private law practice Kiener & Nellen in Bern.

She has been president of the Bernese Union of Sports Associations (German Vereinigung der Berner Sportverbände) between 2011 and 2019 and is an advisory board member of Swiss Women's Football. Between 2004 and 2016, Kiener-Nellen, was on the board of trustees of Inselspital Bern as well as a board member of the Bernese Education Center for Health Care.

Kiener-Nellen served on the National Council (Switzerland) between 1 December 2003 and 1 December 2019 for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Her political focus lied on taxation.[3]

She is among Switzerland's richest legislators with an estimated net worth of CHF 12 million (equivalent to $13m). Despite her pro-tax politics she made national headlines about her own tax optimization.[4][5][6]

Since 1982, Kiener has been married to Alfred Nellen,[7] who is also an attorney. They reside in Habstetten (Bolligen) and have two children.