Corine Mauch (born 28 May 1960) is an American-born Swiss politician who served as Mayor of Zurich from 2009 to 2026. She previously served on the city council of Zürich between 1999 and 2008 for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (of which she was a member since 1990). Mauch is the first female and first openly lesbian person to be elected mayor of the city.
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Early life
Corine Mauch was born 28 May 1960 in Iowa City, Iowa to Samuel Mauch, an engineer, and Ursula Mauch (née Widmer), a chemistry teacher. Mauch lived in Boston, where her father worked at MIT as a doctoral student, until age four. Her family then moved back to the rural village of Oberlunkhofen in Switzerland, though Mauch spent another year in the US at age ten. In Oberlunkhofen, Mauch and her two younger brothers were the only protestant students in the school.
In 1976, Samuel and Ursula Mauch founded Infras, a research and consulting agency focused on sustainable development. In 1979, Ursula Mauch became the first woman to represent Aargau in the National Council, serving until 1995. From 1987 to 1995, Ursula Mauch was also the first female parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.