Guido Fürer, Group Chief Investment Officer, was appointed to the Group Executive Committee with effect from 1 November 2012.
Guido Fürer has successfully led Swiss Re Group Asset Management since his appointment as Group Chief Investment Officer in November 2012.Previously, Mr Fürer was Head of Swiss Re’s CIO Office and Chief Investment Officer for the Business Unit Reinsurance. Prior to these roles, from 2001 – 2004, Mr Fürer worked for Swiss Re’s Private Equity unit with the responsibility for the European strategic participations. From 1997 – 2001, he was Managing Director at Swiss Re New Markets focusing on Alternative Risk Transfer.
In 2006, together with The Geneva Association, Mr Fürer co-founded a global Insurance CIO Network. The Network has since established itself as an important platform for professional exchange on issues and opportunities in the industry. More recently, he is highly engaged in the global dialogue on long-term investing, regularly interacting with senior policy makers and private sector participants. Mr Fürer is a member of the World Bank’s Global Infrastructure Facility, the WEF’s Global Future Council, the OECD’s longterm investment network and IIF’s Infrastructure Working Group. In addition, he is a member of the Forum for Financial Stability at the Deutsche Bundesbank, represents Swiss Re at the ECB’s Institutional Investor Dialogue and for a bipartisan infrastructure policy initiative in the US.
Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1997, Mr Fürer held leading positions over an eight-year period at Swiss Bank Corporation/O’Connor & Associates in option trading and at its Capital Market division in Chicago, New York, London and Zurich.
Guido Fürer was born in 1963 and is a Swiss citizen. He earned a summa cum laude Master degree in Economics and a PhD in Financial Risk Management from the University of Zurich, as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
