Roland Friedli Manager Casualty Risk Engineering

Roland Friedli heads up Swiss Re's Casualty Risk Engineering unit. In his role, he supports underwriting decision-making and portfolio steering globally in industries such as Construction, Automotive, Utilities and Tech.

Before joining Swiss Re in 2001, Roland worked as project manager in various engineering companies in Switzerland and the US. There, he was responsible for geotechnical investigations, risk assessment of natural hazards as well as the investigation and remediation of contaminated sites. For several years, he had been a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Civil Engineers in Zurich.  In Swiss Re’s Internal Environmental Management, he was responsible for the energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reporting of Swiss Re’s operations and infrastructure.

Roland Friedli holds a Master's in Environmental Sciences and a degree in Higher Education for Physics and Environmental Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.