Christian Mumenthaler
Member of the Executive Board and Head of Life and Health
Christian Mumenthaler is a Member of the Executive Board and was appointed Head of Life & Health in the (Re)Insurance Products area in September 2007. He also served as Chief Risk Officer of the Swiss Re Group with effect from 1 January 2005 to the end of 2007.
Mr. Mumenthaler, a Swiss citizen born in 1969, received an PhD from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He started his professional career in 1997 as an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group before joining Swiss Re in 1999 as manager in Group Strategic Planning.
Between 1999 and 2002 Mr Mumenthaler was responsible for a number of key company projects, including innovative securitisation solutions for the Group. In 2002, he established a new unit, Group Retro and Syndication, which was responsible for optimising the Group's risk and capital base through retrocession and securitisation. As Head of Group Retro and Syndication, he was responsible for a number of innovative capital market transactions, including the first securitisation of mortality risk.
His commitments in organisations outside Swiss Re include memberships in the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) as Vice Chairman and the Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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