Kaspar Villiger

Member of the Board of Directors (non-executive, independent)

Mr Villiger, a Swiss citizen born in 1941, graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1966.

As an entrepreneur, Mr Villiger co-owned and managed two businesses from 1966 until 1989. Simultaneously, Mr Villiger had several political positions, first in the parliament of the canton of Lucerne and, from 1982, in the Swiss Federal Parliament. He became a Federal Councillor in 1989. He initially served as Defence Minister, with responsibility for the Federal Military Department. He then became Finance Minister in 1995 as Head of the Federal Department of Finance until the end of 2003. Mr Villiger was President of the Swiss Confederation in 1995 and 2002.

Mr Villiger joined Swiss Re’s Board of Directors in 2004 for a four-year term and was re-elected in 2008 for a three-year term. He also serves as non-executive director on the boards of Nestlé SA, and the newspaper “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”.

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