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Lukas Gähwiler

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Lukas Gähwiler

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Lukas Gähwiler was appointed Chairman of UBS Switzerland with effect from September 2016. Prior to this he had served for over six years on the Group Executive Board of UBS Group AG and as President of UBS Switzerland, with responsibility for all businesses – Personal Banking, Wealth Management, Corporate & Institutional Clients, Investment Banking and Asset Management – in UBS’s home Swiss market. Before joining UBS he had spent 20 years in various executive capacities at Credit Suisse in Switzerland and North America, seven of them as Chief Risk Officer for Corporate & Private Banking. Mr. Gähwiler holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen. He has also completed an MBA programme in Corporate Finance at the International Bankers School in New York and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.