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Cecilia Reyes
Group Chief Risk Officer
Nationality: Swiss and Philippine
Born: 1959
Skills and experience
Cecilia Reyes has over 20 years’ experience in international financial markets. Ms. Reyes
worked from 1990 until 1995 for Credit Suisse in Zurich in various roles in asset
management, global treasury and securities trading. In 1995, she started working with ING
Barings in London and in 1997 she became a director and head of quantitative risk analysis.
She moved to Amsterdam in 2000 as the head of risk analytics for ING Asset Management
to develop risk management methods for the asset management operation. Ms. Reyes
joined Zurich in 2001 as Head of Group Investments for North America and became Head of
Group Investments for Europe/International Businesses in 2004. From March 2006 until
March 2010 she was Head of Investment Strategy Implementation. Ms. Reyes was
appointed Chief Investment Officer and member of the Executive Committee effective April
2010. In July 2015 she assumed her current role as Group Chief Risk Officer.
External appointments
Ms. Reyes has been a member of the advisory board of the Department of Banking and
Finance at the University of Zurich since 2011. In 2014 she became a member of the Board
of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management. In March 2017 she was accepted as a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Educational background
Cecilia Reyes holds a Ph.D. in finance from the London Business School, an MBA in finance
from the University of Hawaii and a Bachelor of Science in management/industrial
engineering from the Ateneo de Manila University.
Zurich, March 2017