Carolin Roth X Marcel Rohner
From latecomer to the country’s top banker
Marcel Rohner on his path to the top, the importance of banks for Switzerland and why artificial intelligence will never replace a good client advisor.
Marcel Rohner offers an insight into his unique career spanning more than 30 years. We find out what role Volksbank’s «fairy tale corner» played, which chance events were important along the way and why he remains convinced of the Swiss banking industry’s strength and stability despite the challenging conditions we currently face. Marcel takes us on a journey from the start of his career to his personal plans for the future.
The podcasts are available — by episodes — in German and French.
Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association
Marcel Rohner
Marcel Rohner is Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association. After gaining a doctorate in econometrics from the University of Zurich, he began his career at Swiss Bank Corporation. He held a number of management positions at UBS over the course of a decade, ending up as Group CEO. He became a director of the Geneva-based private bank UBP in 2010 and was appointed Vice-Chair in 2016. With experience in a range of areas from risk management to strategic leadership, he knows the industry from every angle. As a Vice President of economiesuisse, he has been promoting close links between the financial centre and the real economy since 2021.
Host
Carolin Roth
Carolin Roth is a financial journalist, moderator and reporter boasting over 17 years’ experience with CNBC International in Zurich and London, where she has presented live programmes on financial markets, business and politics for an international audience. She now works on a freelance basis for NZZ Connect, Handelsblatt and Forbes, among others, and moderates conferences on such topics as sustainable investment, geopolitics and the digital transformation. With her excellent specialist knowledge, international experience and self-assured manner, she makes complex economic relationships easy to understand, be it on stage, in the studio or on a podcast.
