Mathis Cabiallavetta
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (non-executive, independent)
Mathis Cabiallavetta was elected to Swiss Re’s Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting of 18 April 2008, with effect from 1 September 2008, for a three-year term of office. He was nominated Vice Chairman with effect from 13 March 2009.
Mathis Cabiallavetta, a Swiss citizen born in 1945, graduated from the University of Montreal with a bachelor’s degree in economics and from the Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario with a master’s degree in economics.
Mathis Cabiallavetta is member of the Board of Philip Morris International and BlackRock, Inc. He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of General Atlantic Partners (GAP) in New York and a Senior Advisor of Marsh McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC).
He was Vice Chairman of the MMC Board of Directors from November 2001 to November 2004. Prior to joining MMC in 1999, Mathis Cabiallavetta was Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBS AG, having held several senior positions in the company since 1971. He became President of the Group Executive Board in 1996 and was elected Chairman of UBS AG in 1998.
He is a former member of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank and a past Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association. He was also a member of the Committee of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Stock Exchange and the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
March 2010
