Max Binder was born on 26 November-1947. Farmer. Since 1990, he is a municipal councillor in Illnau-Effretikon (Canton of Zurich) in charge of the Health Department. He was elected to the National Council in 1991 as a candidate of the Swiss People's Party and constantly reelected. Speaker of the National Council in 2003/04. He paid visits to India as deputy Speaker (1993) and Bulgaria and Canada as Speaker (2004).