Vice Chairman, Blackrock, London
Philipp Hildebrand began his professional career in 1994 at the WEF in Geneva and then moved to Moore Capital Management in London and New York. In 2000, he joined the Vontobel Group in Zurich as Chief Investment Officer before moving to Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva in 2001, where he was Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Committee. Hildebrand was a member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank from 2003 to 2010 and its Chairman from 2010 to 2012. In December 2011, the financial magazine "The Banker" named Philipp Hildebrand "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2012 - Europe." He was recognised in particular for his leadership in the wake of the global financial and banking crisis. Following his resignation from the SNB, he accepted a guest position as a research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Since October 2012, he has been Vice Chairman at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager in London, looking after institutional investors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia and the Pacific.
Tuesday, 08. November 2016, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
In the last decade, China's importance in the global economy has grown extraordinarily. This rise is based on China's own successful economic growth and the economic problems of developed countries since the global financial crisis. The Chinese economy is changing rapidly: from a low-cost exporter of low-tech products to a major consumer of high-tech products and services; from a commodity-hungry giant to a pioneer of clean growth; from a country with strong currency appreciation pressures (which they are encouraged to do) to a country with strong devaluation pressures (which they are discouraged from doing). Where the Chinese economy goes in the future will have a decisive impact on the markets and real economy of the rest of the world. The countries and companies that correctly anticipate these changes will benefit more. Understanding the changes in the Chinese economy is therefore also a key challenge for Switzerland.