Marcel Rohner (born 4 September 1964) is a Swiss businessman. He was Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) at

UBS AG UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swis ...

from 6 July 2007 until 26 February 2009, and on the Group Executive Board from October 2007 until his resignation.

Biography

Rohner graduated with a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in Economics from the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

and was a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich from 1990 to 1992. Between 1993 and 1998, Rohner was with

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’s Investment Banking branch, where in 1995 he was appointed Head of Market Risk Control Europe. In 1998, he worked as Head of Market Risk Control of

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. In 1999, he was promoted to Group Chief Risk Officer. In 2001 he became Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of the Private Banking Unit of UBS Switzerland. Between 2002 and 2007 he was CEO of Wealth Management & Business Banking, and additionally named Chairman in 2004. Rohner was appointed Deputy Group CEO in January 2006. On 26 February 2009 it was announced that Marcel Rohner had resigned from UBS AG. He was succeeded by

Oswald Grübel Oswald Jürgen Grübel (born November 23, 1943) is a German banker who was the group chief executive officer of Swiss bank UBS AG from 26 February 2009 until his sudden resignation on the 24 September 2011 in the wake of the 2011 UBS rogue trader ...

as the new CEO. Rohner was Vice Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association in Basel until 2008, and the Vice Chairman of The Board of Trustees of The Swiss Finance Institute. In 2013 Rohner was accused of "staggering ignorance" by the Banking Standards Commission over Libor rigging. He is married and has two children.

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