Peter Forstmoser
Chairman of the Board of Directors (non-executive, independent)
Mr Forstmoser was elected to the Board in 1990. His mandate was renewed in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006, each time for a further four years. The Board of Directors elected him Chairman on 30 June 2000.
Mr Forstmoser, a Swiss citizen born in 1943, received a doctorate in law in 1970, going on, in 1971 to qualify as a university lecturer and to be admitted as an attorney-at-law. He gained a masters degree in law from Harvard Law School, is a professor emeritus of Zurich's Faculty of Law and also holds a honorary professorship at Beijing Normal University.
He began his professional career as an attorney and a lecturer at the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Law and Political Science in 1971. Three years later he became an associate professor and in 1978 a full professor for civil, commercial and capital markets law. He has been a partner in the firm of Niederer Kraft & Frey, Attorneys, in Zurich, since 1975.
Mr Forstmoser is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Swiss Re), of Hesta AG, and Hesta Tex AG, Zug, as well as Board Member of Mikron Holding AG, Biel. He has been engaged in numerous committees of experts for law projects and reforms, on subjects such as data protection, stock exchange regulation, private limited company law and collective capital investment law. He has also often acted as an arbitrator in international law disputes.
Zurich, April 2008
