Alain Scherrer
Board Member and Head of Policy Advisory Board
Board Member and Head of Policy Advisory Board
Born in 1965, Alain Scherrer graduated in electrical engineering from the ETH Zurich in 1991. Deputy Director of the Canton’s Centro sistemi informativi (CSI) and Area Manager of Administration (2007-present), he joined Locarno's City Council in 2004, later becoming mayor in 2015.
He is also President of the Board of Directors of Società Elettrica Sopracenerina (SES), President of Kursaal Locarno SA and Vice President of the Fondazione Turismo Lago Maggiore, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of PalaCinema SA and of the Organizzazione turistica Lago Maggiore e Valli (OTLMV), of the Board of Trustees of the Istituto Ricerche Solari di Locarno (IRSOL) and of the Board of Directors of the Ente Regionale per lo Sviluppo del Locarnese e Vallemaggia.
On the Board of Directors of the Locarno Film Festival since 2016, Alain Scherrer is also Head of its Policy Advisory Board.