Peter Wuffli

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Peter Wuffli is the Founder and Chairman of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization. elea was established in 2006 and has the purpose to fight absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means. In addition, Mr. Wuffli is Honorary Chairman of IMD and a Member of the Advisory Board of the elea Center for Social Innovation at IMD. He also serves on the Board of Sygnum, a digital asset bank in Zurich and Singapore. Furthermore, he is Member of the Board of Trustees of BlueEarth Foundation and the Vice Chairman of the Zurich Opera House. Previously, Mr. Wuffli was Partner at McKinsey & Company, CEO of UBS Group, and Chairman of Partners Group and IMD respectively. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen based on a dissertation on Swiss Direct Investment in Mexico.