Pierre Gentin

• Managing Director and Global Head, Litigation, Regulatory, Employment
  Credit Suisse

Pierre Gentin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Litigation for Credit Suisse, a Swiss-based financial services firm with investment banking, private banking and asset management businesses. He is responsible for the worldwide management of the firm's private litigation, government investigations, regulatory enforcement and employment matters. He also chairs the firm's Reputational Risk Review Committee in the Americas region. Gentin joined Credit Suisse in 1998 from the US Department of Justice where he served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Gentin has taught law as Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University and has lectured at Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Council on Foreign Relations. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Practicing Law Institute and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Values in Decision-Making. Gentin received a Bachelor's degree in English (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Princeton University in 1989 and his JD from Columbia University in 1992.