Studies at St Gallen School of Economics, Switzerland; MBA, INSEAD. Independent investor. President: Fondation MAVA, Gland, Switzerland; Fondation Tour du Valat, Arles, France. Vice-Chairman: Roche Holding, Basel, Switzerland. Member of the Board: Genentech, South San Francisco, US; SYSTEMIQ Ltd., London, UK; Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland; as well as of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, San Francisco, US; Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; non-profit foundations. Interests: sustainability, business as a force for good, nature, opera, philanthropy