Axel P. Lehmann (born 1959) is the chairman of

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since January 2022.

Early life

Lehmann was born in 1959, and is a Swiss citizen. He earned an MBA and a PhD from the

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. He is an adjunct professor at the university.

Career

Lehmann worked for 20 years in insurance, briefly at

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before joining

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, where he was chief risk officer from 2009 and 2015. He was a non-executive director of UBS from 2009 to 2015 before joining the bank full-time, and in 2016 he appointed its chief operating officer. He was president of UBS Switzerland from 2018 and 2021. In October 2021, Lehmann became a board member of Credit Suisse as head of its risk committee. In January 2022, Lehmann succeeded António Horta-Osório as chairman of

after he resigned due to repeated breaches of COVID regulations.

References

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