Jean-Pierre Roth
Jean-Pierre Roth
Jean-Pierre Roth joined the Swiss National Bank in 1979 and worked in various sectors of the bank in Zurich and Berne. On 1 May 1996, the Federal Council appointed him Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board and Chairman (Governor) on 1 January 2001. Jean-Pierre Roth represented Switzerland as Governor of the International Monetary Fund. From 1 March 2006 to the end of February 2009 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. He retired from the SNB on 31 December 2009. Jean-Pierre Roth is now member of the Board of Directors of important Swiss companies: Nestlé, Swatch Group, MKS (Switzerland) and member of the Board of various Swiss Foundations. He was designated Vice-chairman of the Arab Bank (Switzerland) on 1 July 2017. Jean-Pierre Roth completed his doctorate in economics in Geneva at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies) in 1976. In 2009, the University of Neuchâtel awarded him an honorary PhD in economics.
