Resident of Glion, Laurent Wehrli is married and the father of 5 children and the grandfather of 2 little girls. Very active in politics and within numerous institutions, his hobbies include skiing, cooking, traveling, and model railroading.
He is involved with the fire brigade, where he serves as the Swiss president, while in the military he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel within the General Staff of Territorial Division 1. A Member of the National Council since 2015, he sits on the Oversight Committee (Subcommittee on Courts) and on the Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as on the Swiss delegations to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (APF). In these capacities, he is Vice-President of the IPU’s Committee on UN Affairs, and President of the Committee on Education, Communication and Cultural Affairs as well as of the APF’s Network on Health and Pandemics.
His expertise is recognized particularly in the fields of foreign affairs and security policy.