Jean-Pierre Roth

[1] He joined the Swiss National Bank in 1979, working in Zürich and Bern.

Between 2001 and 2009 he was Governor of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Switzerland and chairman of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel.

Presently, he is a board member of Nestlé and the Swatch Group.

He received a doctorate in economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

He pursued postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).