Sandrine Salerno (born in 1971 in Geneva) is a Swiss politician and a member of the Socialist Party.

Between 1995 and 1997, she was deputy chief of the European Third World Centre (CETIM) in the human rights programme.

She was co-ordinator in the Swiss Immigrants' Contact Centre from 1997 to 2001, a researcher at Geneva University from 2001 to 2006, and deputy head of the University Affairs unit in the Canton of Geneva's Department of Education.

[3] Ms Salerno is the fourth woman to hold office as Mayor of Geneva.

In accordance with a legal decision on gender equality in June 2007 which resulted in an award of 120,000 Swiss francs to the City Council "for the promotion of equality", Salerno announced in February 2008 that she would be taking maternity leave from her then post in the Geneva Department of Finance and Housing in order to bear her second child.