Zurich Financial Services Group

Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group founded in 1872 and based in Zurich.

Record and Controversies

Revolving Door

• Susan Bies, a board member since April 2008, is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission's advisory committee and was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2001 to 2007.
• Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair was appointed a Senior Advisor to Zurich Financial Services in 2008.
• U.K. Life Peer Alexander Leitch, Lord Leitch of Oakley was Chief executive of Zurich Financial Services (UKISA Asia Pacific) from 1998 to 2004.
• Don Nicolaisen, a board member since April 2006, was Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from September 2003 to November 2005 and served on the Commission’s U.S. and global boards from 1994 to 2001.
• Philippe Olivier Pidoux, a board member since 1997 and Vice Chairman May 2002, is Vice-Chairman of the Swiss National Bank and was a member of the Swiss Parliament between 1983 and 1999.
• Tom de Swaan, a board member since April 2006, was a non-executive director on the board of the UK's Financial Services Authority from January 2001 until the end of 2006.

Contact

Website:

http://www.zurich.com/main/home/welcome.htm

This article is part of the Revolving Door project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• Who's Who 2009, LEITCH, online edition, Oxford University Press, accessed 24 March 2009.
• Zurich, Board and management > Don Nicolaisen, accessed 10 February 2011.
• Zurich, Board and management > Philippe O. Pidoux, accessed 10 February 2011.
• Zurich, Board and management > Susan Bies, accessed 10 February 2011.
• Zurich, Board and management > Tom de Swaan. accessed 10 February 2011.
• Zurich, "Zurich signs advisory agreement with Tony Blair," News Release 28 January 2008, accessed 10 February 2011.