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Future business models for banks and financial service providers

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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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Chief Executive Officer and Partner, Wellershoff & Partners Ltd., Zurich Key Note
Professor of Banking, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
Member of the Management Board, Austrian Association of Popular Banks, Vienna
Director, WPZ - Economic Policy Center, and Professor for Public Economics, University of St.Gallen
Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and former Chairman of Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis, European Parliament, Brussels
Managing Editor, Der Standard, Vienna Chair

Dr. Klaus W. WELLERSHOFF

Chief Executive Officer and Partner, Wellershoff & Partners Ltd., Zurich

1984-1986 Bank training program, Sal. Oppenheim & Cie, Cologne
1995-1998 Chief Economist, Schweiz. Bankverein, Zurich
1998-2009 Chief Economist, UBS, Zurich

Dr. Urs W. BIRCHLER

Professor of Banking, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich

1980-2009 Director (Financial Stability unit), Swiss National Bank
1994-2002 Member Basel Committee on Banking Supervision,
1998-2004 Chairman of Basel Committee Research Task Force
2009 Professor of Banking and Member of the Board of Department of Banking and Finance, Universität Zürich
 
 Teaching: Theory of Banking and Financial Regulation; Game Theory; Economics of Information.
 at Universities of St. Gallen,Zürich,Bern, Lausanne, Leipzig

Mag. Dr. Rainer BORNS

Member of the Management Board, Austrian Association of Popular Banks, Vienna

1992-1993 Gerichtspraxis Bezirksgericht Gänserndorf und Handelsgericht Wien
1993-1995 Assistent am Institut für Zivilrecht, Universität Wien
seit 1994 Lehrbeauftragter im Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut (WIFI) Niederösterreich, Wien
1995-1997 Lektor für Zivilrecht, Universität Wien
1995-2001 Leiter der Abteilung Interessenvertretung im Vorstandsbereich Anwaltschaft des Österreichischen Genossenschaftsverbandes (Schulze-Delitzsch),
  Vertreter des Volksbankensektors in der Europäischen Vereinigung der Genossenschaftsbanken
seit 2001 Mitglied des Vorstandes des Österreichischen Genossenschaftsverbandes;
  Mitglied des Vorstandes der Volksbank Quadrat Bank AG;
  Geschäftsleiter der Spar- und Vorschusskasse der Angestellten, "Wiener Städtische Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft" reg.Gen.m.b.H.;
  Mitglied des Exekutivkomitees der Europäischen Vereinigung der Genossenschaftsbanken;
  Lektor für Genossenschaftswesen, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Dr. Christian KEUSCHNIGG

Director, WPZ - Economic Policy Center, and Professor for Public Economics, University of St.Gallen

1987 Doktor rer.soc.oec. (Ph.D. in Economics), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
1995 Venia Docendi, Economic Policy and Public Finance, University of Vienna
1997-2001 Professor of Public Economics, University of Saarland; Director of European Institute, Economics, University of Saarland
since 2001 Professor of Public Economics and Director of FGN-HSG, University of St. Gallen
2012-2014 Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna
since 2015 Director, Wirtschaftspolitisches Zentrum, St. Gallen

Dr. Wolf KLINZ

Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and former Chairman of Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis, European Parliament, Brussels

1963 Master of business administration, World Trade College, Vienna (now Vienna University of Economics)
1965 Doctor of economics, World Trade College, Vienna (now Vienna University of Economics)
1966 MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau
1970-1981 McKinsey & Company, London, Düsseldorf, Paris (partner)
1982-1990 Board member, Landis & Gyr AG, Zug (CH)
1990-1994 Board member, Treuhandanstalt Berlin
1994-1996 Board member, Lurgi AG, Frankfurt/Main
1996-1999 Chairman of the board, Hartmann & Braun, Frankfurt/Main
2000-2003 Chairman of the board, AGIV AG, Frankfurt/Main
2000-2004 President, IHK Frankfurt/Main

MPA. Dr. Eric FREY

Managing Editor, Der Standard, Vienna

1981 Student of Public Affairs, Princeton University
1991-1996 Deputy Foreign Editor, Der Standard
1996-1998 Foreign Editor, Der Standard
1998-2001 Business Editor, Der Standard
2001-2002 Marshall Plan Chair for Austrian Studies, University of New Orleans
since 2002 Managing Editor, Der Standard