Board of Fondation
The Observatoire de la Finance is an internationally oriented foundation under Swiss law, supervised by the Federal Department of the Interior in Berne. The foundation is managed by a Board, which determines the Observatoire de la Finance’s general policy and draws up its budget.
Les membres du Conseil
Jean-Christophe Pernollet, president
Jean-Christophe Pernollet benefits from a general management and Board experience on an international basis combined with functional expertise in Finance, Risks and Compliance. He is a former Pricewaterhouse Coopers Audit partner accredited by the Swiss financial regulator FINMA. He has been since 2010 an executive at leading wealth management institutions and since 2015 a Board Member and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of a large fintech bank in Switzerland.
Paul H. Dembinski
Paul H. Dembinski has been director of the Observatoire de la Finance ever since it was founded. He studied political science at the University of Geneva, where he obtained his doctorate in economics. In 1979 he began teaching at the University of Geneva, and later he was appointed professor in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Switzerland’s University of Fribourg. In 1989 he founded Eco’Diagnostic together with Alain Schoenenberger.
Andrew Hilton
A graduate of the University of Oxford and the Wharton School and holder of a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Hilton is director and co-founder of the London-based Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, which was set up in 1993. The Centre analyses new international developments in the banking and financial services industry. Andrew Hilton is also director of a group of economic consultants serving official clients in the Middle East. He has previously worked for the Financial Times in New York and the World Bank in Washington DC.
Paul-André Sanglard
Paul-André Sanglard is an economist. He began his career as Treasurer of the new Swiss canton of the Jura, then became a member of the World Economic Forum management team. Since 1989 he has been working as a company administrator. Among other posts in the financial sector, he is president of the Banque Cantonale du Jura and the Vaudoise Assurances insurance group, and a member of the board of directors of the Banque Cantonale Vaudoise.
Former members of the Board
The late Maurice Cosandey, Jean-Loup Dherse, Emilio Fontela and Anthony Travis were members of the Board of the Observatoire de la Finance.
Maurice Cosandey, whose training is in civil engineering, was involved in the preparatory work that led to the establishment of the Observatoire de la Finance. When EPUL became the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology, he was appointed chairman. He has also served as chairman of Switzerland’s Council of Federal Institutes of Technology.
Jean-Loup Dherse was an administrator of various companies, ran various associations and was co-chairman of the Caux Round Table.
Emilio Fontela was a special advisor to the European Commission and the author of many scientific texts on applied econometrics and in the field of economic and social forecasting.
Anthony Travis was a former senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers SA in Geneva. He has worked extensively in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Ernesto Rossi di Montelera, whose background is in law, theology and philosophy, has held various positions within a family industrial group and he has also been chairman of the Centre Catholique d’Etudes in Geneva.