Ueli Leuenberger

Ueli Leuenberger (born 26 March 1952 in Oberönz; Place of origin in Rohrbachgraben, Bern) is a Swiss politician affiliated with the Green Party.

In 1996, Leuenberger founded the Université Populaire Albanaise (Albanian Peoples' University) in Geneva, a pilot project for the integration of Kosovar refugees into Swiss life, which he led until 2002.

[1] Today, he is a vocational teacher in Geneva and lectures irregularly on social integration and people from the Balkans.

[2] On 1 June 2003, Leuenberger took the place of Patrice Mugny in the Swiss National Council, since the latter had been appointed to the Geneva city executive government.

Supportive of a greater north–south solidarity, he has also promoted labour ecology, protests against the "nuclear lobby", and participatory democracy.