Marcel Ospel

Overview

Marcel Ospel has been Chairman of the Board of Directors (BoD) of UBS AG since 2001. Prior to this, he served as Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) of UBS. He was the President and Group CEO of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1996 to 1998. He was appointed CEO of SBC Warburg in 1995, having been a member of the Executive Board of SBC since 1990. From 1987 to 1990, he was in charge of Securities Trading and Sales at SBC. From 1984 to 1987, Mr Ospel was a Managing Director with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and from 1980 to 1984, he worked at SBC International London and New York in the Capital Markets division. He began his career at SBC in the Central Planning and Marketing Division in 1977. Mr Ospel graduated from the School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA) in Basel and holds an "Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree" of the University of Rochester. He was born on 8 February 1950. Marcel Ospel is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's International Advisory Panel. He is a trustee of the Foundation Board of the Patronate Committee for the Basel Museums of Art and of the Committee for the Museum of Antiques, Basel, and is the Chairman of the "Optimus Foundation", a charitable foundation administered by UBS. Marcel Ospel is the treasurer of "Economiesuisse", the Swiss business federation, Zurich, and is a member of the European Financial Services Round Table, Brussels.