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Tomasz Orpiszewski joined the ZHAW in 2017 after working for several years as fund manager, strategist and economist in a Swiss hedge fund, the ESM, Candriam and AXA IM. He currently focuses on applied R&D projects combining investment strategies with next-generation ESG data. He enjoys working with big data by applying NLP models to news and web data, or analyzing company footprints with satellite data.

Patrick Odier is the President of Building Bridges, a multistakeholder effort that aims to enhance the finance industry’s contribution to achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd. since January 1st, 2014, and he has been Senior Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group since July 1st, 2008. He joined the Lombard Odier Group in 1982 and completed his training in Zurich, New York, and Montreal, before becoming a Managing Partner in 1986. He holds an economics degree from the University of Geneva and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. He is also the president of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF), member of the Board of economiesuisse (Swiss Business Federation). and was the Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2009 to 2016. He is also a board member of several Swiss and international academic institutions and philanthropic organisations.

In 2015 Radomir co-founded WealthArc – a FinTech company developing cloud-based B2B SaaS products for independent asset managers and family offices. Flagship product simplifies day-to-day operations by automating the end-to-end workflows from data integration, client and portfolio management to reporting.

Radomir’s experience includes hands-on software development, data analytics, product delivery, product management and general management.

Radomir is dedicated to create reliable software products to financial industry using modern technologies. He contributed to develop a number of applications – starting from low-level, high-performance applications (C++), through real-time systems (Java), complex mathematical models (Python, R) and Azure-native web applications (C#).

Radomir received solid academic background in software engineering (MSc) and financial mathematics (MSc).

He also represents the Polish banking sector in of the European Banking Federation. As part of the Federation, he takes part in the work of the Retail Banking Committee, Financial Markets Committee and several working groups on financial markets and sustainable financing.

From July 2013, he was a member of the Council for WIBID and WIBOR Reference Rates at ACI Polska. And after the change of administrator, since 2016 he is a member of the Oversight Committee of  Reference Interest Rates at GPW Benchmark SA.

Since June 2013, he has been a member of the KDPW_CCP Risk Committee (Chairman in 2013-2020, and Deputy Chairman from 2020).

Dorota has over 14 years of professional experience in financial supervision and providing advisory services for the financial sector. He specializes in issues related to sustainable financing, prudential supervision and regulatory requirements for banks, including risk management taking into account ESG factors, internal control system, corporate governance and disclosures.

Michaela Seimen Howat is a Sustainable Investing (SI) Strategist in the Chief Investment Office Wealth Management. She joined UBS in April 2018 from Scope Ratings, a European credit rating agency, where she was a senior analyst for financial institutions. At Scope Ratings she lead a project team for the assessment and implementation of ESG criteria in the credit rating process.

Michaela has more than 15 years of international experience in the credit and debt markets. Prior to joining Scope Ratings, Michaela was a rates strategist within the Investment Banking Divisions of Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays and UBS in London where she covered Supranationals, Sub-Sovereigns & Agencies, as well as Covered Bonds. She was responsible for advising institutional clients with a global coverage. Michaela also worked in counterparty risk management for financial institutions at UBS in London and, from 2003 until 2006, she worked as a bank analyst for Moody’s in Frankfurt and London.

Michaela studied Economics with a focus on International Business Relationships and International Market Management at the Universities of Passau and Muenster, Germany,  and received a Masters degree.

Jochen Dürr took the position as Chief Risk Officer of SIX in March 2015. He is a Member of the company’s Executive Board.
Prior to joining SIX, he held a number of management positions in risk management at State Street Corporation.
Jochen began his professional career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, working in both Germany and the US. He served a global clientele, which included asset managers, banks and insurance companies focusing on risk management, the capital markets business and corporate finance.
Jochen was awarded a doctorate degree in credit risk management by the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Rostock and holds a graduate degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen. He was a visiting student at the University of Warwick and Stern Business School.

Matteo has had an established career in financial services, starting as a trading floor quant and becoming a strategy consultant after pursuing an MBA at INSEAD. He then moved to UBS and took on a number of roles in corporate strategy, product and project roles across Wealth Management, before relocating to Hong Kong to become chief of staff for region APAC. Back in Switzerland he launched UBS Next Investing – the corporate venture capital initiative of UBS for early stage fintechs. He is now responsible for both Investing and Intelligence activities under Next.  His extracurricular interests range from Psychology to Fintech, Machine Learning and early stage investing.

One of Poland’s foremost private client lawyers with international recognition, he is trusted by some of the most influential individuals in the country with legal and tax advise related to their private wealth.

Among others, he has advised on setting up a number of private foundations. He also specializes in relocation of families from Poland to other countries, particularly to Switzerland. His international expertise, combined with corporate and tax experience, makes him a market leader in cross-border matters, particularly with a taxation and asset protection angle. He understands clients from both legal and business perspectives. His track record also includes tax litigation, organisation of business structures, and tax (both advisory and contentious) and corporate law, including company acquisition and spin-offs.

Deputy State Secretary for International Finance, at the Federal Department of Finance of Switzerland, since April 2020. He heads the Planning and Strategy Division and acts as Switzerland’s Finance Deputy to the G20.
Stefan Flückiger entered the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1989. He was posted to Zimbabwe and Berlin, and served first as deputy head of mission and then as ambassador at the Swiss Delegation to the OECD in Paris from 2006-2014. Between diplomatic posts he worked as a World Bank staff in Haiti and at the
Swiss Think Tank Avenir Suisse. Before taking up his current post Stefan Flückiger was head of the Special Foreign Economic Services in the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Switzerland, directing a team of negotiators for bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements for Switzerland. Stefan Flückiger is a Swiss national and holds degrees from the universities of Zurich and Yale.