Dittli mistakenly carries a doctorate

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The Vaud finance director Valérie Dittli (30, center) is currently making headlines for paying the taxes in her canton of origin and not in her own authority. Now she has more problems. And that’s because of her doctorate—which she wouldn’t even be allowed to wear.

As the “Tages-Anzeiger” makes public, the State Council has probably completed its dissertation. And she also defended this in the so-called dispute in the summer of 2021. To date, however, she has not published her thesis and has not made any copies available to the University Library of Lausanne.

regulation is clear

However, according to the article, the regulations of the University of Lausanne are clear: only those who publish their dissertation may use the title of doctor. The requested copies of the dissertation must be submitted to the library. According to the university, the doctorate is not awarded until all formalities have been completed.

When Dittli ran for the Council of State of Vaud in 2022, she still described herself as a doctor of law. And on her department’s website, she calls herself Dr. iur., i.e. doctorate in jurisprudence. The same goes for the LinkedIn platform.

Inconsistencies around the National Fund

The question of why Dittli’s dissertation has long since disappeared from the library also perplexes Dittli’s supervisor, Professor of Law Denis Piotet. He writes to the “Tages-Anzeiger”: “It takes time to get in touch with publishers, get comparable offers and possibly apply for a subsidy for the publication costs. But instead of Mrs Dittli I cannot judge whether she had time for it, so I cannot answer the question.”

The tax affair does not seem to be over yet. As the “Tages-Anzeiger” reports, Dittli is increasingly caught up in inconsistencies. She claimed that between 2016 and 2020 she was a doctoral student with a 50 percent workload at the University of Lausanne, but worked most of the time at home in Oberägeri ZG. At the same time, she worked another 50 percent for a Swiss National Science Foundation project, translating a legal commentary on adult protection from French into German.

Opinion not possible

Only: she never received money from the National Fund, as the responsible professor of law Philippe Meier clarifies. “She was 100 percent employed at the university. She was able to use half of her working hours for her dissertation, which she wrote under the supervision of Denis Piotet.”

The newspaper contacted Valérie Dittli on Monday afternoon and confronted her and her media spokesperson about the investigation. Following repeated inquiries, Dittli’s department announced on Tuesday evening that an explanation is currently not possible. We want to report at the end of the week. (pt)

Source:Blick