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

Joachim Oechslin was elected to the Board of Directors of Swiss Re Ltd in 2020. He chairs the Risk Committee and is a member of the Governance, Nomination and Sustainability Committee.

Professional experience

Joachim Oechslin currently serves as Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Credit Suisse Pension Funds (Switzerland). From April 2021 to December 2021, he held the role of Chief Risk Officer ad interim and served as a member of the Executive Boards of Credit Suisse Group AG and Credit Suisse AG on an ad interim basis. As of January 2022, he continued to serve Credit Suisse AG as a Senior Advisor. He joined Credit Suisse Group in 2013, where he served as Group Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board from January 2014 to February 2019, before becoming a Senior Advisor at Credit Suisse Group. Prior to this, from 2007, Joachim Oechslin was Group Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Group Committee at Munich Re Group. Between 2001 and 2006, he held several senior risk management roles at Winterthur Insurance, Switzerland, including Chief Risk Officer of Winterthur Life & Pensions and later Group Chief Risk Officer of Winterthur Group, and following its acquisition by AXA in 2006, he assumed the role of Deputy Group Chief Risk Officer of AXA Group. He began his professional career in 1998 as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, specialising in the financial services sector.

Educational background

• Master of Science in Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Higher Technical Institute (HTL), Winterthur, Switzerland

External mandates

• Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Credit Suisse Pension Funds (Switzerland)