Tessa Huber was elected to the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA) in spring. The molecular medicine specialist wants to reduce bureaucratic hurdles in the Council and get young Swiss Abroad more involved. No one can be blamed for taking their time to think about running for office. This spring, just five minutes passed between the enquiry about her candidacy and the election of Tessa Huber as the second Co-Vice President of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) Germany. Shortly beforehand, the 32-year-old was presented at the conference of OSA Germany as the newly elected Councillor for the Swiss Abroad. Huber grew up in Berlin with cassettes and children's books in Swiss German and cheese fondue at Christmas. She says it came as a shock when she realised that her friends didn't keep up this tradition. "That's terrible. How can you live without cheese fondue?" she asked herself at the time. For Huber, however, the most important connection to her mother's homeland was not ...
