Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cantonal Bank of Geneva. He is also member of the Board of Directors of Nestlé, Swatch Group and SwissRe. He represented Switzerland as Governor of the IMF, Washington. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel (2006-2009). At the end of March 2007, he was designated Switzerland’s representative in the Financial Stability Forum. He joined the Swiss National Bank in 1979, where he was, among others, Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Governing Board. He holds a doctorate in economics from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Geneva.
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