Swiss Bankers Association appoints Roman Studer as new CEO

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Roman Studer will replace Jörg Gasser, the Swiss Bankers Association announced on Wednesday. The board of directors voted for him unanimously. Since August Benz won’t take the job until early August, he will continue to lead the business as interim Deputy CEO until then. Gasser announced his resignation at the end of January.

Studer joined the banking association from UBS. He is currently the Head of Swiss State Affairs. In this role, he has been responsible for all UBS-related regulatory and economic policy development in Switzerland since 2018. Prior to that, he headed the “UBS Center for Economics in Society” research center at the University of Zurich.

“Thanks to his many years of work at the interface between business and politics, his deep knowledge of financial market regulation and economic policy, and his national and international network, Roman Studer is the ideal profile for his role with us. In his communiqué of the decision, SBA President Marcel Rohner explains. Studer is the SBA in his current position. Worked with for several years.

Studer studied political science, economics and economic history at the Universities of Zurich and Oxford. He earned his PhD in economic history from Oxford and then spent several years doing research as an assistant professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

(SDA)

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